Arts & Culture
Standing before Isaiah
This year, the most famous Dead Sea Scroll went on display in its entirety for the first time since 1968. The prophet’s metaphors ring as precisely as ever.
Rosalia’s mystical path to loving God
The songs on Lux take us on an intimate journey through the artist’s own spiritual awakening.
Trending topics: Our cats, ourselves
Seven books about how domestic cats help us to see ourselves more clearly
A war dog’s odyssey
Paul Yoon’s novel of a military dog making his way home through the wreckage is quietly theological.
Sufjan Stevens’s ghosts
For a songwriter steeped in grief and religion, learning to live with what he’s lost may be its own kind of faith.
In which nothing is reckoned with
The Social Reckoning wants to make us feel a victory over big tech. Have we had one?
Chasing shinies in a secular age
Is Pokémon GO a late-capitalist venture in re-enchanting the world?
Trending topics: Hunger horror
Five horror novels about people wracked by ravenous, insatiable hunger—and one bloodthirsty sentient plant
A dose of witchy comfort from Practical Magic 2
The movie delivers predictable autumnal delight—and a world that centers the relationships of women.
Trending topics: Black women writers
Six new biographies of Black women whose writing has changed history