Jesus never missed an opportunity to turn a meal into a meaningful encounter. He had a deep awareness of the transformative capacity of sharing food. Some of...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Ocean to Ocean Tori Amos (Decca, 2021) Some people can remember where they were when they first heard Tori Amos’ anthemic debut album, Little Earthquakes. That...
The Northman Directed by Robert Eggers (Focus Features, 2022) Director Robert Eggers has already built a name for himself as an auteur of the grotesque...
Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics By Karen Peterson-Iyer (Georgetown University Press, 2022) In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Christian Account, Karen...
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...
