In a small room in Field Projects, a Manhattan art gallery, three punch-needle tapestries hang from banner poles alongside clippings from old newspapers with...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Prices keep going up. Neighbors are picked up off the streets and sent to detention camps. War ravages the Middle East. There may not be much to laugh...
Meeting the Enemy By Kevin J. O’Brien (Fortress Press, 2025) Some faith groups have called for fossil fuel divestment as a way to stifle climate change. But...
Through this Fire Across from Peter Balkan The Mountain Goats (Cadmean Dawn, 2025) Despite the title, the prominent element in the Mountain Goats’ latest album...
How do you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn? You might look for new ways to engage people who, at best, are indifferent to your message and at worst...
My dad and I communicate largely through rock ’n’ roll. It’s easier than direct conversation. In my early teens, I discovered the riches of his generation’s...
I’ll admit, I’m judgy. For example, I once grew irritated with a good friend after they went a few weeks without communicating. Then I received their...
The Unstoppable . . . Dave Chappelle (Netflix, 2025) Dave Chappelle’s latest stand-up special is paradoxical. He plays a massive stadium show as if it were a...
I’m playing the 2018 city-building game Frostpunk, and I have a decision to make. Frostpunk casts the player as the leader of an isolated city in an alternate...
