Peter Coviello

Peter Coviello is Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His most recent books are Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs and Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism.

The Novel and the Secret Police

In Vineland, his underappreciated 1990 novel, Thomas Pynchon anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.

  • Peter Coviello

Mercy Hours

On being awestruck by literature, and the necessary pleasures of intimacy—near and remote—during quarantine.

  • Peter Coviello

Secularism’s Saints

How the Mormon Church redefined itself as a modern liberal religion.

  • Peter Coviello
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