Arts & Culture
On the path to holiness with Dostoevsky
Paul Contino offers a hope-filled reading of The Brothers Karamazov.
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.