Old Time Folks Lee Bains and The Glory Fires (Don Giovanni Records, 2022) The day this fourth album from our greatest left-wing Southern punk-rock band...
Arts & Culture
The following is an excerpt from The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America (Fortress Press, May 9, 2023) “You hold me only when...
A television series doesn’t have to tell all the truths about life, so it’s forgivable that Netflix’s Firefly Lane is a bit myopic in its narrative of two...
The Car Arctic Monkeys (Domino, 2022) The Arctic Monkeys’ latest album—their seventh LP and first in close to five years—shows the continuing metamorphosis of...
Some people respond with anger or outrage when they encounter a controversial work of art. Their indignation can be all the more intense if the artwork touches...
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London (Firelight Films, 2022) Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom, streaming on PBS...
The world—especially the church—would be a better place if Christians who are heterosexual and are not trans listened to a sermon about sexual sin from the...
Regenesis By George Monbiot (Penguin, 2022) George Monbiot’s central contention in this disturbing and bracing book is that farming is slowly killing the...
Beads and booze. Food and fats. Dancing and drinking. Pleasures and pączki. OK. The last one is more of a Chicago thing. Pączki are Polish pastries enjoyed by...
