Arts & Culture
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy
His challenges to the left and right alike are devastating and timely.
What is poetry in the face of war?
Mosab Abu Toha’s poems are about Gaza. Reading them I saw all people who suffer.
Music for the apocalypse
Growing up, I never understood the book of Revelation. Then I started listening to Black Sabbath.
The tropes that birth the hero
It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s representation is not playing in the dark of caricatured Black people.
Coming of age with girl detectives
Like her genre foremothers, the teen sleuth in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder isn’t just solving a crime, she’s figuring out her place in the world.
The Wild Robot asks what makes us human
We are animals that need to overcome our instincts, robots that need to overcome our rationality.
A fictional reservation that feels real
Amy Frykholm’s novel creates a fascinating interplay of Native people and settlers whose lives are complicated by intergenerational trauma.