Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics By Karen Peterson-Iyer (Georgetown University Press, 2022) In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Christian Account, Karen...
Arts & Culture
Corita Kent, through her art and words, gave me two life-giving lessons this year: love the moment, and love the darkness. Cortia Kent, love is hard work...
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...
A century and a half ago, Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days, and readers began to imagine that the world might be shrinking a wee bit. The new...
The French Dispatch Directed by Wes Anderson (American Empirical Pictures, 2021) The French Dispatch is a paean to highbrow, narrative journalism. With poetic...
Infinite Regress By Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022) Novelist and poet Joshua Hren’s latest work, Infinite Regress, pits the existentialist’s nihilism...
Laurel Hell Mitski (Dead Oceans, 2022) Like the sun’s rising or setting, Mitski’s heart dances on the cusp of darkness in her brief but beautiful sixth album...
Cyrano Directed by Joe Wright (United Artists Releasing, 2022) If I had to pick one word to describe Cyrano, it would be human. The thrill of first love, the...
Although Catholic themes, characters, and motifs feature prominently in his work, New York–based writer, political historian, and chronicler of all things...
By now it’s become a cliché that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and economic ills that America long swept under the rug. Low wages, weak workplace...
