Arts & Culture
Piranesi is the best kind of fantasy novel
Susanna Clarke weaves magic into her readers’ lives.
The Good Lord Bird portrays abolitionist John Brown as a wild prophet
The miniseries is full of big ideas about freedom and self-determination.
The books we’re giving as Christmas gifts
If your secret Santa were a Century editor, here’s what you might be getting.
Would we recognize a modern-day messiah?
Sean Gandert’s novel asks us to decide if a man is a saint or a sham.
I was a scribe for the Chicago Illuminated Scripture Project
What would possess me to copy a chapter of the Bible by hand?
Ted Lasso is the soccer coach we all need
What if kindness, honesty, and compassion were valued more than winning?
Journeying with Father Dan and a coyote along the via negativa
Daniel Hornsby’s debut novel has a wonderful road-trippy feeling.