Slaves and Kings Directed by Pablo Moreno (Bosco Films, 2022) The Spanish-language film Slaves and Kings is subtitled “The Story of Saint Antonio María Claret...
Reviews
Swinging on the Garden Gate By Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Skinner House Books, 2022) I almost cried several times while reading Swinging on the Garden Gate. Not...
We Need to Talk About Cosby Directed by W. Kamau Bell (Showtime, 2022) The work of trying to see the many facets of a challenging topic is not commonplace in...
Who’s Black and Why? Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Harvard University Press, 2022) Anti-Black racism has an origin. “Race” and the...
Batter Up: Answering the Call of Faith & Fatherhood James R. Walters (New City Press, 2022) Now that I am a father of two young children, I see the world...
Ocean to Ocean Tori Amos (Decca, 2021) Some people can remember where they were when they first heard Tori Amos’ anthemic debut album, Little Earthquakes. That...
The Northman Directed by Robert Eggers (Focus Features, 2022) Director Robert Eggers has already built a name for himself as an auteur of the grotesque...
Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics By Karen Peterson-Iyer (Georgetown University Press, 2022) In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Christian Account, Karen...
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Big Thief (4AD, 2022) “Would you live forever, never die / While everything around passes?” So asks Adrianne Lenker...
The French Dispatch Directed by Wes Anderson (American Empirical Pictures, 2021) The French Dispatch is a paean to highbrow, narrative journalism. With poetic...