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Christina Bieber Lake

Christina Bieber Lake is author of Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. She is a Contributing Editor for Current.

Super Bowl LIX Was an Unpredictably Boring Game

Christina Bieber Lake   |  February 17, 2025

Here’s why that’s a good thing

A Modest Proposal to End Insanity, Part III

Christina Bieber Lake   |  December 18, 2024

Tribal thinking isn’t thinking

A Modest Proposal to End Insanity, Part II

Christina Bieber Lake   |  November 20, 2024

Evidence of medical malpractice is mounting

A Modest Proposal to End Insanity, Part I

Christina Bieber Lake   |  November 19, 2024

Conversations around gender transition reveal deeper problems

REVIEW: Stalking Joy

Christina Bieber Lake   |  May 30, 2024

Who was Flannery O’ Connor? A new biopic’s portrait almost convinces.

REVIEW: The Art of the Possible

Christina Bieber Lake   |  April 1, 2024

In Tara Isabella Burton’s new novel, fancy, fantasy, and possibility all point in one direction: home

REVIEW: The Deformation and Reformation of the Evangelical Imagination

Christina Bieber Lake   |  December 13, 2023

Who are evangelicalism’s architects? Bunyan, Dickens, Moody and more

Barbie . . . and Ken

Christina Bieber Lake   |  August 7, 2023

On finding a way to teach what feminism is . . . and isn’t

Oh the Place We Went: At Large in the Porkies

Christina Bieber Lake   |  July 17, 2023

Close the eyes of the tourist. Open the eyes of the soul.

REVIEW: Nothing but Blue Skies?

Christina Bieber Lake   |  June 19, 2023

We need eye-opening speculative fiction more than ever

REVIEW: The Middle Children of History

Christina Bieber Lake   |  April 3, 2023

Do you think ChatGPT can write a novel? Read this book.

Why Everyone Is Watching Yellowstone. And Why You Should Too.

Christina Bieber Lake   |  January 11, 2023

Can anything disarm our ignorance of the people we think we know? 

Stranger Things: Not So Strange at All

Christina Bieber Lake   |  July 27, 2022

What should we do when monsters loom? Tell stories about them, of course.

Top Gun: The Joys We Can Imagine. The Joys We (Still) Can’t.

Christina Bieber Lake   |  June 10, 2022

Becoming fully alive requires a better story