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Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America, coming in June 2026, both from Grove Press. Learn more about her work at www.brookwilensky-lanford.com

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Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

Recently at the Cannes Film Festival, actress Salma Hayek premiered parts of her film adaptation of the 1923 spiritual classic The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. The animated film, reflecting the episodic…
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
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Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

“To not have those ideas in there…it’s like a weird editing job.”
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
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Religion Comes to its Senses

We taste the bread, we smell the incense; you don’t have to put that down lower because you don’t understand the theological concepts. Don’t feel bad about having an experience involving stained glass windows; that’s not a trivial thing.
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
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