Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic (2024), and the forthcoming Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025). She is also book review editor at Current and writes a weekly newsletter at nadyawilliams.substack.com. 

Posts by Nadya Williams

March 19, 2026

Seeking God at the End of the World

Is the end of the world drawing nigh? This is the question at the heart of Christopher Beha’s 2020 blockbuster novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. A deranged-looking street preacher appears at the beginning of the novel, predicting the end times, setting a concrete date to the end of it all. Continue Reading...
February 04, 2026

The Prodigal of Leningrad

In my memories, December 31 in Leningrad, Russia, was always cold. Of course, the city has been called St. Petersburg, its pre-Revolutionary name, for much of my life, but for the almost decade that I lived there, it was Leningrad. Continue Reading...
January 07, 2026

His Stylus Was Mightier Than His Sword

Sometime in the late 340s B.C. in Athens, a feud between two powerful men, Apollodoros and Stephanos, culminated in the last of a series of lawsuits that the two had been bringing against each other for the better part of a decade. Continue Reading...
September 10, 2025

Whose Body? Whose Self?

In Dorothy Sayers’s 1923 whodunit, Whose Body?, an unidentified dead body, naked but for a pince-nez, is mysteriously dropped off in the bathtub of a perfectly ordinary, respectable home. Who is Mr. Continue Reading...
July 01, 2025

A Telltale Heart in Ukraine

There is blood seeping from under an otherwise ordinary shed door in the city. This possible sign of a crime sets in motion the plot of The Stolen Heart, Andrey Kurkov’s second installment in the delightful series of Kyiv mysteries, set nearly 100 years ago and following the low-brow exploits of a young policeman, Samson Kolechko (“The Ring”). Continue Reading...