Arts & Culture
A holy fool with chocolate
Understanding Wonka in light of the gospel’s message of radical, unconfined love
William Guthrie’s weird Christianity
The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.
A refugee’s lonely heart
Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.
In search of Rumi’s live heart
Looking for an Arabic translation of a favorite line, I found myself on a treasure hunt.
The very real sham marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s remake is in some ways the inverse of the 2005 original.
Ressentiment et rancoeur:
A Proposal
A Proposal
Resentment. Say it.
Perhaps it seethes on shelves of memory or grovels around the basement, nearly inflaming the other rooms in the house....
Short Sleeve February
At the playground a girl managed to climb up onto the high spinny thing, her brothers reaching,...
A glimpse of the world beyond
In his new novella, Jon Fosse allows a luminous narrative to unfold at a dreamlike pace.
An Indulgence
It is impossible that the son of these tears should perish. —St. Monica, mother of Augustine of Hippo...
Eileen Ryan’s Codex No. 1–3 (left) and Spiritual Microbiomes (right)
Eileen Ryan is a New England–based interdisciplinary artist who explores intersections between art, science, and spirituality, often drawing on her background in microbiology....
Nothing to Hold On To
When the lasso of language misses its mark, falls limp in the dust, the horse gets away, ...