Paul Elie’s essay “Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?” (Dec. 23) mentions several American novelists (myself excluded) who he believes have tackled the issue of faith — even if somewhat timidly — in their work. He ends with the following: “All the while, you hope to find the writer who can dramatize belief the way it feels in your experience, at once a fact on the ground and a sponsor of the uncanny, an account of our predicament that still and all has the old power to persuade. You look for a story or a novel where the writer puts it all together.”
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