Arts & Culture
Sola natura
Richard Higgins offers a remarkably full account of Henry David Thoreau’s ever-evolving faith.
A diary of small apocalypses
In Charlotte Wood’s novel, an atheist is driven by climate despair to an isolated convent, where she grapples with layers of grief.
A history of muscular Christianity in the US
Paul Putz traces the influence of evangelicalism on sports, from the birth of the YMCA to Colin Kaepernick.
Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin
Frank and Mary Frost, the filmmakers behind a recent PBS documentary about the Jesuit paleontologist, have long seen him as a true visionary.
Modern love
At first, Materialists seems like a brutal reckoning with our metric-obsessed age. But director Celine Song has bigger themes in mind.
When Superman deconstructs
Many have criticized the new film’s twist on its hero’s origin story. I found it powerfully resonant.
The costs of rebellion
Andor demonstrates that Star Wars is still one of our most compelling fictional accounts of imperial power—and the various means of resisting it.