Arts & Culture

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Books

Action without agency

A philosophy professor races through a (predetermined?) action plot

by Joshua B. Grace

Poetry

Leaving the garden

by Christopher Warner

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On Art

Cruz y Ficcion(es), by Patrick McGrath Muñiz

Art selection and comment by Lil Copan

Poetry

The six days world transposing in an hour

by Malcolm Guite

Sunday Morning Matinee

Episode 64: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Matt and Adam welcome Brennan Breed to talk apocalypse, transhumanism, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Poetry

Flannery’s donkey

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

Poetry

Peter at eighty

by Donna Pucciani

Poetry

God as the mother fox and her three kits, Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

by Susan O’Dell Underwood

Sunday Morning Matinee

Sunday Morning Matinee LIVE: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Adam and Matt reflect on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in front of a live audience at the Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas. 
Poetry

Requiescat in pesto

by Phillip Martin

Brad Pitt and Mike Moh fight on a movie set
Screen Time

Quentin Tarantino’s violent movie about violent movies

In Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, the director delights in both cinema and blood.

by Kathryn Reklis

Poetry

A kind of tune

by Malcolm Guite

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Books

Two-bit hustlers in the church and elsewhere

In Patrick Coleman’s novel, people hurt others with drugs, dollars, and/or Jesus.

by William H. Willimon

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On Art

Father Frans van der Lugt, by Jordan Denari Duffner

Art selection and comment by Lil Copan

Poetry

Barcarolle

by Peter Cooley

Poetry

The soul in paraphrase

by Malcolm Guite

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On Art

The Celestial Ship of the North (Emergency Ark), aka the Barnboat, by Scott Hocking

Art selection and comment by Aaron Rosen

Poetry

Metamorphosis 7

by Pamela Todd

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Books

Philip Kolin’s poems for the holy, violent earth

Yearning for the impossible, glimpsing the unimaginable

by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Poetry

Night rainfall

by Luci Shaw

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