Beat the Champ The Mountain Goats (Merge Records, 2015) You’re either down with wrestling as entertainment or you’re not. The recent death...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
When I was a college freshman—at the time a liberal arts major—my creative writing instructor told us that the way to learn how to write stories was to read...
In Robert Lupton’s follow-up to his popular Toxic Charity, the author weighs the future of effective efforts to reduce poverty. Echoing themes of his previous...
Spotlight (Open Road Films, 2015) Directed by Tom McCarthy Catholic audiences are all too familiar with the premise of the film Spotlight: Reporting by the...
Universities regularly teach ethics across their curriculum and in graduate courses at professional schools, but as James Keenan writes, the university itself...
A couple of years ago, Washington Post religion writer Michelle Boorstein wondered, “Is Jim Gaffigan technically employed by the Roman Catholic Church?” Her...
You can’t help but wonder why. What is alt-rock god Ryan Adams doing covering Taylor Swift’s zeitgeist of an album, 1989? Is it a joke? Is the rocker taking...
“Faith is a gift,” writes Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez. “To receive this gift means putting oneself behind Jesus as he walks, putting his teachings into...
The release of Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free was as much of a mainstream media event as one can expect in this age of audience fragmentation. The...
The Whale Chaser: A Novel By Tony Ardizzone (Chicago Review Press, 2015) The Whale Chaser begins and ends with a moment of transcendence: “The summer...
