Arts & Culture
Poems for a difficult life of faith
Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
The call of a remnant prairie
I’ve seen artists enchanted and haunted by the prairie, their work changed by spending time in the grasses.
Inside the lives of everyday workers
Mark Larson’s collection of soulful interviews is a worthy successor to Studs Terkel’s 1974 classic Working.
Nosferatu and the horror of enlightenment
Robert Eggers’s film reminds us that much of what presents itself as common sense is just a contingent arrangement, one form of folklore instead of another.
Kendrick Lamar is playing a different game
The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.
I still have a voice
After the election, I was worried about people being silenced. So I joined a choir.
The role of judgment in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s sophomore novel
Most reviews of Long Island Compromise blame the characters’ misery on their family’s wealth. But the reality of their predicament is far more serious.
Competing masculinities in the dojo
As Cobra Kai’s final season is about to air, we are living in the aftermath of the political backlash to The Karate Kid’s softer kind of power.
The magic of Amy Leach’s world
The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later.