Workin’ on a World Iris DeMent (Flariella, 2023) Iris DeMent once expressed that writing a song can be a form of prayer. But, as her critically acclaimed...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
You Developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble (2018–present) Four seasons on, thriller series You has worked out a tried-and-true formula: After barely...
Since its earliest days, television has profitably mined physicians, hospitals, and stethoscopes for a steady stream of reliably popular medical dramas. But...
Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide By Adam Bucko (Orbis Books, 2022) Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide is arriving at the right time. The pandemic made...
On May 1, the 2023 Met Gala commenced. The annual fundraising gala, which is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, is viewed as the most...
SOS SZA (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA, 2023) SOS, SZA’s 23-track, Billboard-charting sophomore album, begins with the beeping of a morse code distress signal...
What is it about an inquisitive little wooden puppet that dreams of “being a real boy” that pulls at our heartstrings? Is it his innocent wonder at the world...
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Directed by Rian Johnson (Netflix, 2022) The years between 1920 and 1940 were an era of extreme income inequality, excessive...
Remembering Why We Preach By Karla J. Bellinger and Michael E. Connors, C.S.C. (Ave Maria Press, 2022) How can preaching foster encounter between God and a...
Orson Scott Card has written that the world of science fiction is like the stable in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle: much larger on the inside than the outside...
