Arts & Culture
Breaking cycles of violence with How to Train Your Dragon
I went to see a family movie. I got a lesson in René Girard’s mimetic theory.
Carmy Berzatto’s will to change
The protagonist of The Bear wants to believe that art and excellence don’t require trauma and abuse.
The fear of being filmed
Tyler, the Creator’s album Don’t Tap the Glass suggests that our phone cameras pose a threat to our embodied human freedom.
Between the synagogue and the streets
Chaim Grade’s characters give voice to the questions, quarrels, and quiet devotions of European Jews on the cusp of the Second World War.
Dark fantasy novels that scream theology
I didn’t expect so much sacramental imagination in Tamsyn Muir’s series about lesbian necromancers in space.
