An epic quest for cultural identity unfolds in the pages of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novels. When Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Catholics from China in 2000...
Author - Nicholas Liao
How do comics walk the fine line between being hilarious and hurtful? It’s all in the delivery. Earlier this year the comic duo of Keegan-Michael Key and...
Damien Jurado (Secretly Canadian, 2014) Even if you’ve never heard Damien Jurado’s music before, you might know him by name. Since the ’90s...
By Stanley Hauerwas (Seabury Books, 2013) It’s a weird thing to review a book of sermons, let alone one written by a theologian known less for preaching...
Elvis Costello and The Roots (Blue Note, 2013) The coupling might raise a few eyebrows, but Elvis Costello and hip-hop outfit The Roots have more in common...
When poor diets caused too many early deaths in an urban community, a solution came from an unlikely source—the local mortician. As a 61-year-old mortician...
By Garry Wills (Viking, 2013) One of the church’s most noted inside critics, historian Garry Wills, shows no signs of slowing at nearly 80 years old. In...
Jim James (ATO Records, 2013) Kentucky rock outfit My Morning Jacket made its name in the early 2000s off its signature brew of country and psychedelic rock...
