Arts & Culture
Monsters and their beautiful work
Claire Dederer thinks through what it means to consume art produced by people who have said or done terrible things.
A world with no boundaries
Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories of love and defiance escape the plane of realism.
Movement of the soul
Justin Peck’s choreography takes the language of ballet and turns it into something more.
A refugee’s fragmented memory
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s fractured and stirring memoir is haunted by war—and religion.
The buddy-cop feminist detective series I didn’t know I needed
Deadloch is one of the funniest, smartest, most unexpected delights I have watched in a long time.
A magical world of daily bread
In Luci Shaw’s new collection of poems, ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.
Linda Ekstrom’s Pursed (upper left) and Mary (upper right, detail below)
A leather-bound Bible hangs on the gallery wall, a strap running beneath its spine....
Eastertide
for Andrew Mead
I am watching a moose ripple out of his antlers. I am watching Tollund Man, arm-in-arm with Judy Garland. I am trying to believe...
Good Friday, The Veneration
If desired, a wooden cross may now be brought into the church and placed in the sight of the people....
Holy Thursday,
The Stripping
The Stripping
The Celebrant returns to strip the Altar and chancel of all ornamentation, recalling the stripping of our Lord’s body at the crucifixion....