Arts & Culture
The Chair and the collapse of the humanities
Who, exactly, should preside over meaning-making?
Station Eleven and the purpose of art
With the world as they knew it gone, the characters remake the world from the resources they carry inside them.
How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes
His advice: be yourself, be underprepared, be weird.
Lauren Groff builds a proto-feminist medieval world
But the enchantment of Matrix is ultimately broken by her language.
Anya Silver’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful last poems
Saint Agnostica is a chronicle of grief, love, and mystery.
The power of The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s subversive new western
In her new movie, the filmmaker’s fascination with the myth of masculinity unfolds in 1920s Montana.