New Releases by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson’s speech for the 2026 Jon Fosse Lecture, delivered at the Norwegian Royal Palace. In a time of fragmentation and a constantly narrowing public discourse, Marilynne Robinson looks to writers and thinkers of the past in search of what we have lost along the way. In the work of Edgar Allan Poe, John Calvin, and others, Robinson finds a forgotten humanism, one that unifies faith, metaphysics, and freedom of thought. These rich veins contrast with the restricted modern understanding of what a human being is and can be. Nevertheless, our creativity, along with the free space offered by literature, gives us reason for hope. This essay is a powerful exhortation to rediscover our spiritual and human obligations. On Faith and Freedom of Thought is the written edition of the 2026 Jon Fosse Lecture, a second in this series of lectures on literature and art—named in honor of the Norwegian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

L’esplorazione del primo libro della Bibbia è un viaggio nel corso del quale Marilynne Robinson riflette sulla condizione umana, la capacità di fare il bene e il male, la libertà e la responsabilità morale, il valore del patto e la forza della legge, la complessità della giustizia divina e il suo mistero, il senso del sacrificio e della ricompensa, il peso dell’eredità, della benedizione e della cura provvidenziale di Dio. È una meditazione profonda che irradia gratitudine per la costanza e la benevolenza della fiducia incrollabile di Dio in tutte le sue creature. In questo itinerario, una delle più grandi scrittrici cristiane viventi mostra l’inesauribile ricchezza letteraria e teologica di Genesi, svelandone la complessità e la ricercatezza narrativa e offrendo uno spaccato originale sulla straordinaria bellezza delle Scritture e sul loro potere ininterrotto di interrogare l’attualità. Marilynne Robinson è una delle più grandi e importanti scrittrici statunitensi del XXI secolo. Nel 2012 ha ricevuto la National Humanities Medal, insignitale dal presidente Barack Obama per «la sua grazia e intelligenza nella scrittura». Con il romanzo Gilead (2004), ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer 2005 per la narrativa e il National Book Critics Circle Award; Casa (2008) è stato premiato con l’Orange Prize e il Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014) ha ricevuto il NationalBook Critics Circle Award; mentre Jack (2020) è stato annoverato fra i bestseller dal New York Times. Il suo primo romanzo, Le cure domestiche (1980), ha vinto il PEN/Hemingway Award per la migliore opera prima.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true. Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis, which includes the full text of the King James Version of the book, is a powerful consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with humanity. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.

In tutta la sua opera, narrativa e saggistica, Marilynne Robinson ha costruito una critica appassionata della società contemporanea – con la sua dipendenza dalla tecnologia e il suo materialismo – nel nome di un profondo umanesimo che recuperi il nostro valore in quanto creature divine, per quanto fallibili e predatorie. Nei diciassette saggi di questa raccolta, Robinson spazia – con la profondità e la limpidezza che i suoi lettori hanno imparato a conoscere – lungo un ampio spettro di temi: dalla capacità dei grandi pensatori del passato (Calvino, Locke, Shakespeare) di influenzare e guidare le nostre vite, all''ascesa di un''élite autoproclamatasi tale, che rischia di corrompere la vita politica e religiosa degli Stati Uniti, allontanandola dai valori della democrazia e della fede. Una lettura indispensabile, per comprendere e apprezzare ancor meglio la lucida visione che ha ispirato romanzi memorabili come Gilead e Lila, e per guardare con nuova consapevolezza l''America e la crisi profonda che ne sta prosciugando il sogno.

A New York Times bestseller Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Australian Book Review, AV Club, Books-a-Million, Electric Literature, Esquire, the Financial Times, Good Housekeeping (UK), The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub, the New Statesman, the New York Public Library, NPR, the Star Tribune, and TIME Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa—the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack—and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now. Robinson’s Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity.

Non tutti sanno che tra Le cure domestiche, il romanzo di esordio con il quale Marilynne Robinson divenne una celebrità negli Stati Uniti, e Gilead, la sua seconda opera narrativa, premiata con il Pulitzer e primo capitolo di una magnifica trilogia completata da Casa e Lila, sono trascorsi ben ventotto anni: dal 1980 al 2008. E non tutti sanno che in questo trentennio o poco meno la Robinson, ben lungi dal rimanere inattiva, si è cimentata ripetutamente con il genere saggistico, regalando ai suoi lettori una serie ininterrotta di perle. Spaziando dalla meditazione teologica a riflessioni illuminanti sulla letteratura, dal ricordo autobiografico alla disamina di un''intera nazione e delle sue trasformazioni, i saggi di Quando ero piccola leggevo libri affrontano da un''angolazione nuova e complementare i grandi temi che sono al centro della sua narrativa - il clima politico e sociale degli Stati Uniti, la centralità della fede religiosa e la generosità di sguardo che ne deriva, la natura dell''individualismo americano e il mito del West - e compongono il ritratto intimo e ricco di sfaccettature di un''autrice che è considerata un vero e proprio classico contemporaneo.

A new essay collection assesses today''s political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society''s political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life.

Con questo romanzo poetico e potentissimo Marilynne Robinson, quasi venticinque anni prima di Gilead , entrava magistralmente nel mondo delle grandi lettere, oltre che nella mente e nel cuore dei lettori, per non abbandonarli piú.

"The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille''s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."--

''Thuis maakt indruk als een uiterst zorgvuldig geschreven morele vertelling, die laat zien hoe het geloof de een optilt en de ander in het nauw drijft.'' - NRC Handelsblad Glory Boughton keert terug naar het dorp Gilead om voor haar stervende vader te zorgen. Al gauw verschijnt haar broer Jack, de verloren zoon, die twintig jaar spoorloos was. Hij zoekt een toevluchtsoord, en wil in het reine komen met een verleden vol wangedrag en ellende. Jack, briljant, aandoenlijk en onvoorspelbaar, is een van de mooiste personages uit de moderne literatuur. Hij kan nergens aarden, is aan de drank, maar zijn vader aanbidt hem. Zijn pogingen om nader tot zijn zuster en zijn peetvader, buurman John Ames, te komen zijn even hartverscheurend als hopeloos.

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister and widower, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood of itinerant work. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand-to-mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a lucky knife to protect them. But despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life is laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson''s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Award Finalist A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson''s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.

A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice A New York Times Bestseller A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Gilead Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor. In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In "Open Thy Hand Wide" she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in "When I Was a Child," one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.

Da autora de Gilead, vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer"O raciocínio de Robinson é profético, profundo, eloquente, sucinto, poderoso e oportuno." — The Guardian"Adorei ler Além da razão. Por quê? É sempre um prazer estar na companhia de alguém que leva as ideias a sério." — Siri Hustvedt, Financial TimesNeste livro ambicioso, a aclamada Marilynne Robinson usa seu talento para abordar um tema bastante perturbador — a relação entre ciência, religião e conhecimento. Trabalhado com o mesmo cuidado e discernimento do seu romance premiado — Gilead —, Além da razão desafia os ateus pós-modernos e sua cruzada contra a religião sob a égide da ciência.Na visão da autora, a razão científica não pressupõe a infalibilidade lógica, como talvez seja entendido no discurso de pensadores como Richard Dawkins. Pelo contrário, em sua forma mais pura, a ciência representa a busca por respostas, dedicando-se com afinco ao mistério do conhecimento, mais do que a garantir um modelo da realidade simples e decisivo.Por defender a importância da reflexão individual, Robinson promove o poder e as diversas formas do conhecimento humano, seguindo a tradição de William James. Ela explora a natureza da subjetividade levando em conta a cultura em que Freud estava inserido e como isso influenciou seu modelo de indivíduo e de civilização.Por meio de primorosas interpretações de linguagem, emoção, ciência e poesia, Além da razão põe de volta o conhecimento humano em seu lugar central no debate entre religião e ciência.

Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father''s traditionalist values.

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gilead" pens a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations.

昨天晚上,我对你说,说不定哪天我就走了。你问:“上哪儿?”我说:“到主那儿。”你又问“为什么?”我说:“因为我老了。”你说:“我不觉得你老”......

In these ten essays, Robinson brilliantly addresses subjects that have become the territory of specialists--religion, history, the state of society. The writing is "contrarian in method and spirit," according to the author.

As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.

"Britain, the welfare state and nuclear pollution"--Dust jacket.

Ce beau récit américain (1981), raconte l''histoire de deux orphelines adolescentes et de leur tante qui les élève. C''est le roman de l''impermanence et du transitoire de la vie où seule dure la mémoire. Admirablement racontées, ces situations banales dans lesquelles s''enrobe le quotidien sécrètent une sorte de sagesse à la fois symbolique et réelle.

The papers of Marilynne Robinson consist of two items: an advance reading copy of The Death of Adam and a draft of Housekeeping.