Arts & Culture
Translation as an act of love
“Dolly Parton says she is singing for everybody. I am trying to translate for everybody.”
The exuberant absurdity of Don’t Look Up and Moonfall
Watching the destruction of the world we were warned was coming is a staple of American entertainment.
At Tara Isabella Burton’s fictional boarding school, the hunger for transcendence gets dark
A tale of beauty, religion, and how easy it is to exploit them
The Chair and the collapse of the humanities
Who, exactly, should preside over meaning-making?
Station Eleven and the purpose of art
With the world as they knew it gone, the characters remake the world from the resources they carry inside them.
How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes
His advice: be yourself, be underprepared, be weird.