Arts & Culture
The heaving, howling, rolling, jumping ecstasy of Ann Lee
I know “Shaker musical” sounds like a prompt at a bad improv class. But Mona Fastvold’s new film is wild and wondrous.
Portraits of silence
My week in a convent helped me see how our freedom is contaminated by noise. Silentium is a tribute to the nuns who welcomed me.
Bearing witness in three lines
Frustrated with the limits of journalism, former war correspondent Rick Black turned to haiku.
A book that tells a story beyond its pages
Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how they’re related.
Playing to lose
I witnessed the sports betting empire ruin one man’s life. It’s coming for millions more.
The mother load
In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence’s character seems to have intuited an invisible straitjacket of maternal expectations, and she is desperate to shake it off.
