Cowboy Carter Beyoncé (Columbia Records, 2024) Beyoncé is one of the few artists in popular music today who makes albums that aim for the heft and significance...
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Cabrini Directed by Alejandro Monteverde (Angel Studios, 2024) In 1946, Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized. “Mother Cabrini,”...
Judaism Is About Love by Shai Held (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) Some years ago, I took classes in Judaism. One day, the rabbi talked about differences...
Prelude to Ecstasy The Last Dinner Party (Island, 2024) London-based indie/baroque rock band The Last Dinner Party makes an impressive debut with Prelude to...
Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat opens, very nearly, with a familiar scenario: a dispiriting encounter between a young artist with an exacting creative vision and a...
Avatar: The Last Airbender Developed by Albert Kim (Netflix, 2024) On one hand, Avatar: The Last Airbender is familiar, almost predictable. Repeatedly, Avatar...
In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell, best known for his photorealistic depictions of everyday American life, painted the now-iconic picture of 6-year-old Ruby...
Zero at the Bone By Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) Despair hits differently at different times, and sometimes what hits isn’t despair, but a...
Back to Moon Beach Kurt Vile (Verve Forecast, 2023) If you’re not listening to Kurt Vile’s latest release, the EP Back to Moon Beach, on repeat, you need to...
A Murder at the End of the World Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (FX, 2023) In murder mysteries, why do audiences fixate on the killers? What about...
