Arts & Culture
Turning Red and the terror and joy of female adolescence
Watching the Pixar movie alongside Euphoria and Yellowjackets made me appreciate the exuberant intensity of Mei’s embodiment.
A robot learns to be a child
The central character of Kazuo Ishiguro’s virtuosic 2021 novel is an “Artificial Friend” with a young girl’s body.
Byzantine and Catholic
Millions of Christians worship like the Orthodox but are aligned with Rome. Andy Warhol was one of them.
A rabbi’s poetic wrestling with faith after the Shoah
In Yehiel Poupko’s poems, Jewish belief in God groans under the burden of divine silence.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the monster of Whiteness
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
Robert Pattinson gives us the Batman we need
He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.
The mirror world under the sea
Millions of unknown species in our oceans inhabit a universe of storytelling and dreaming.