Arts & Culture

Long drive home after

a difficult diagnosis

by Laura Grace Weldon

February 18, 2020

In my extremity

by Mary Moore Easter

February 17, 2020

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Brian Doyle’s rivers of words

A new collection of Doyle’s nonfiction overflows with wonder.

by Tom Montgomery Fate

February 14, 2020

The burden of climate change in Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite

Class criticism is a common theme in movies. This one says something more unusual.

by Grace Ji-Sun Kim

February 13, 2020

Sorry for Your Loss’s quiet exploration of race

A white woman, her black husband, and the struggle to be known

by Kathryn Reklis

February 13, 2020

Sunday Morning Matinee

Episode 74: 2020 Oscars recap

Matt and Adam recap the Oscars, celebrate Parasite, and discuss the year in movies.

February 11, 2020

In the Lectionary

February 26, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21)

Every year, we repeat this dusty choreography.

by Amy Ziettlow

February 11, 2020

Eternity

by Philip C. Kolin

February 10, 2020

A visit to the Hava NaGrilla Smoke BBQ Festival in Philadelphia

Hope smells like barbecue.

by Adam Hearlson

February 7, 2020

Lullaby

by Joseph Bathanti

February 7, 2020

Sweet Jesus

by Christine Hemp

February 5, 2020

No more of it in one place than another (Eight shades of blue at the Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo de Guzmán) and Model for a String of Dreams, by Cherith Lundin

art selection and comment by Lil Copan

January 31, 2020

On the way to work

by Francine Marie Tolf

January 30, 2020

Snow plant

January 28, 2020

Speech

by Sarah Rossiter

January 24, 2020

A strand of pearls

by Peter Cooley

January 23, 2020

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Poems of hope, gratitude, and perspective

The devotional, political poetry of Barbara Crooker

January 22, 2020

Model for Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Portland, Maine, 2019 (in progress), by Robert Katz

art selection and comment by Aaron Rosen

January 17, 2020

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Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”

Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.

by Amy Frykholm

January 16, 2020

Sonnet for myself at 17

by Tania Runyan

January 15, 2020

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