Arts & Culture
American Fiction and The Holdovers find beauty in quiet, personal drama
This used to be the form of most movies, but now it feels rare and precious.
An island in the storm
Paul Harding’s evocative novel begins with the 1815 hurricane off the New England coast.
Nature is not an escape
To understand this, I had to stop reading John Muir and turn to the nature writing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Memoir of a native son’s son
Keenan Norris’s sobering book explores Chicago’s role in forging the identity of the Black man in modern America.
The Iowa poet-priest who mastered haiku
Raymond Roseliep quietly became one of the most highly regarded haiku poets in the English language.
The Crown abdicates without a successor
My viewing experience recapitulated a running theme of the show: the question, Why are we doing this?
Is she bad?
Both May December and Eileen are meant to make us a little queasy as our moral judgments come up short.
Episode 35: Theologian Kwok Pui Lan, author of The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective
A conversation with theologian Kwok Pui Lan about colonialism, the Anglican church, Desmond Tutu, and more