

Dust Thou Art: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at Thirty
To borrow from Flannery O’Connor, The Secret History might not be Christ-centered, but it is certainly Christ-haunted. As such, the novel makes for excellent Lenten reading.
To borrow from Flannery O’Connor, The Secret History might not be Christ-centered, but it is certainly Christ-haunted. As such, the novel makes for excellent Lenten reading.
Today we are far from understanding carnival, precisely because we live in a continuous carnival, a constant inversion of norms. But if revolution is a parody of carnival, the totalitarian control that follows is a parody of Lent—and we can already see those austere masts on the horizon.