Arts & Culture
The ultrarich and their total depravity
The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity.
A novel about purity culture and its harm
At its core, God Spare the Girls is about a family history doomed to repeat itself.
Stephen Sondheim’s expressions of yearning
My spirituality was shaped by this secular artist’s powerful spiritual questions.
The creative resistance of Native American Christian art
The Christian Thunderbird is once more taking flight.
15 London children died in a World War II attack
Francis Spufford’s novel imagines the lives they might otherwise have led.
’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies
What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”?
Telling Native stories on TV
Rutherford Falls gambles on humor to sort out White blindness. Reservation Dogs ignores the White gaze altogether.
Jonathan Franzen writes a family that feels familiar
In Crossroads, a troubled associate pastor faces his deepest desires and doubts.