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Michial Farmer

Michial Farmer is a poet, essayist, and history teacher. He is the author of Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction (Camden House, 2017) and the translator of Gabriel Marcel’s Thirst (Cluny, 2021). He lives in Atlanta.

Articles by Michial Farmer

The Race to the Bottom: A Review of Ross Benes’s ‘1999’

It never fails—whenever Benes defends low culture, he does so in the exact terms that he ought to be using to criticize it

From Postliberalism to Preliberalism: A Review of The Church Against the State

Next time we’re drinking bourbon together, I look forward to telling him that he’s got all the right impulses and is coming to the wrong conclusions.