Lyle Enright is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Loyola University Chicago, where he is currently writing a dissertation on political theology and how it shows up in contemporary literature. His academic work has appeared in Renascence, Textual Cultures, and Contagion, and he has also written for Relief and Rock & Sling among others. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his wife, who daily asks him when he is going to write more fantasy fiction.
Apr 5, 2019

Hacksaw Ridge and the Strange Sovereignty of God

Hacksaw Ridge, like Shusau Endō, asks us to consider the very terrifying particularity of God’s interactions with human beings.
May 25, 2018

A Perfect Circle: Elephants and End-Times

Keeping with the political tenor of the times, A Perfect Circle fearlessly brings religion into the fray once again.
Jan 8, 2018

The Spiritual Topology of Sleep Well Beast

The National’s latest, Sleep Well Beast, affirms that if heartbreak is particular to our times and places, to our own networks of relationships, then grace must be as well.