What happens when God isn’t looking? Greg Clarke looks at the connections between the death of God in modernity and the behaviour and moral universe of Modernist writers and artists.

"The fool says in his heart ‘There is no God’", according to the writer of Psalm 14. The Hebrew words translated as "fool" in the Psalms apparently refer not to someone’s intellect, but to their moral fibre. A fool is not an idiot, but a reprobate. He (or she) doesn’t

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I live in Sydney, which means I am compelled to live and breathe real estate. My interest is piqued by special newspaper supplements, home improvement television and the headlining news of adjustments in interest rates. Even social conversation is frequently hijacked by concerns of who is looking for what, and who is doing up which so that they can sell it for something else. The ‘built environment’ has so filled our horizons that we cannot see past

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