Ashley Makar < Killing the Buddha

Ashley Makar

Killing the Buddha editor Ashley Makar is a writer who wanders genres while deep in Yale Divinity School, where she studies religion, literature and whatever metaphorical theology she can get her hands on. She has taught Middle Eastern literature and religion at Hofstra University and published essays in The Birmingham News, American Book Review, and Search. She repents not her trespasses through the Irish bogs of Connemara.

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This Is All One Colon

by Ashley Makar

Grappling with James Agee’s punctuation, one hundred years after his birth.

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Day of the Dead

by Ashley Makar

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James Agee’s Aperture of Awe

by Ashley Makar

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The Sapphire in Hildegard’s Wine

by Ashley Makar

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Better Than a Thousand Months

by Ashley Makar

The holiest night of the year for a Nuyorican Muslim.

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What Would Plato Do for Labor Day?

by Ashley Makar

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Muhammad and Mary, Up from Common Ground

by Ashley Makar

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Assumed into Heaven: Sleep Tight, Virgin Mary

by Ashley Makar

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Christian, for All Intents and Purposes

by Ashley Makar

Unpacking religious baggage in Jerusalem.

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Believer, Beware in Transit

by Ashley Makar

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Corpse Posing to ‘Beat It’

by Ashley Makar

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Heart Failure

by Ashley Makar

Jesus on the cross is one thing, but her father is another.

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Ash Wednesday Already

by Ashley Makar

How’s a girl supposed to go about mourning in a world like this?

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Wayward Sheep

by Ashley Makar

More schooled than churched, she wanted to try dying to the self, to grope for the Spirit under the water, and come up in grace. It was more awkward than that.

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My Holy Ghost People

by Ashley Makar

When a family speaks in tongues, can an unbelieving daughter find her voice?