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...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
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...
The predominant theme of our contemporary culture is increasingly expressed by a single word: division. From homilies, news, and podcasts to conversations with...
When I sat down to watch Jon Chu’s film adaptation of Stephen Schwartz’s smash-hit musical Wicked, I expected to be captivated—and I was. Having seen the...
Circle of Hope By Eliza Griswold (Macmillan Publishers, 2024) Church is a place where many people hope to find peace, but churches are made up of human beings...
Talking about his late friend Thomas Merton, acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto says jazz resembles Merton’s own approach to writing. Sisto, a former...
