As Christians, we don’t typically view music the way we view activities like recreational sex or drunk driving. While Christian morality warns against...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Flow Directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Well Studio, 2024) There were parts of Flow that made me cuddle my 3-month-old black kitten a little tighter. The main...
Comedian Mohammed (Mo) Amer released the second season of his self-titled show Mo on Netflix at the end of January. The comedy show, loosely based on Amer’s...
When two friends hang out for 30 years, writing jokes and sketches, trading emails, smoking cigars, and earning Emmys—what happens when one of them comes out...
Night Palace Mount Eerie (P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2024) Phil Elverum just wants to feel alive. All of his music, be it released under The Microphones or Mount...
We Carry Smoke and Paper By Melody S. Gee (University of Iowa Press, 2024) Among salt-cured fish, melon soup, pork dumplings, and other foods made by her...
A Man on the Inside Created by Michael Schur (Netflix, 2024) A few minutes into A Man on the Inside, it becomes clear that the series’s creator, Michael Schur...
Millions of people all over the world would probably be eager to sit at the feet of Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, basking in his brilliance. That may be why...
Bludgeoning beats and raucous raps are the soundtrack to Franklinton Fridays, which take place in a trendy art district just east of downtown Columbus, Ohio...
Songs of a Lost World The Cure (Fiction Records, 2024) After 16 years of recording dormancy, British band The Cure is back with an album, Songs of a Lost...
