Arts & Culture

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On Art

Wind (public installation), by Billy Mark and Sarah Mark

Art selection and comment by Lil Copan

Guest Post

Communion on the playa

Leading a Christian worship service at Burning Man

by Patty Jenkins

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Books

A school of death

Colson Whitehead dramatizes a horrifying piece of historical reality.

by Abigail J. Paxton

Poetry

The pure in heart

by Gracia Grindal

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Books

Back to Margaret Atwood’s Gilead

The Testaments returns to the world of The Handmaid’s Tale. Is this a good idea?

by Katherine Willis Pershey

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On Art

First the days, then the twinkle, then the wings, and then the quiet, by R. Sawan White

Art selection and comment by Aaron Rosen

Sunday Morning Matinee

Episode 65: Booksmart

Matt and Adam are joined by Christy Lang Hearlson to talk adolescence, anger, and Booksmart.
Poetry

Passing through

by Sarah Rossiter

Poetry

Sunset Hill

by Jeff Gundy

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Screen Time

(De)formed by wealth in Succession and Schitt’s Creek

Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?

by Kathryn Reklis

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Books

Action without agency

A philosophy professor races through a (predetermined?) action plot

by Joshua B. Grace

Poetry

Leaving the garden

by Christopher Warner

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On Art

Cruz y Ficcion(es), by Patrick McGrath Muñiz

Art selection and comment by Lil Copan

Poetry

The six days world transposing in an hour

by Malcolm Guite

Sunday Morning Matinee

Episode 64: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Matt and Adam welcome Brennan Breed to talk apocalypse, transhumanism, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Poetry

Flannery’s donkey

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

Poetry

Peter at eighty

by Donna Pucciani

Poetry

God as the mother fox and her three kits, Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

by Susan O’Dell Underwood

Sunday Morning Matinee

Sunday Morning Matinee LIVE: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Adam and Matt reflect on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in front of a live audience at the Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas. 
Poetry

Requiescat in pesto

by Phillip Martin

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