Christina Iglesias is a PhD candidate in English at Columbia University specializing in modernist literature. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Modernist Unselfing,” explores how modernist writers reacted to the decline of orthodox religion by turning to alternative forms of spirituality predicated on subordinating the self to broader, deeper, and semi-otherworldly forces.
Christina Iglesias
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God Walks Into a Bar
One of the stories in Joy Williams’s Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Franz Kafka triumphantly addressing a fish at a public aquarium. He has just become a vegetarian, and thus finally feels his conscience to be at ease: “Now at last I can look at you in peace,” he says to the fish. “I don’t […]
