Arts & Culture
Competing masculinities in the dojo
As Cobra Kai’s final season is about to air, we are living in the aftermath of the political backlash to The Karate Kid’s softer kind of power.
The magic of Amy Leach’s world
The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later.
Who needs Roman imperial fantasies?
After watching Gladiator II, I turned elsewhere for a more joyful model of masculinity.
The End of the World in a Day?
After Czesław Miłosz
After Czesław Miłosz
On this day a pup goes out to pee and decides to lift his leg. Congress in business dress fights as usual over lies. ...
The Lost Roses
“Look here,” he showed me, “all these buds. I’ll be cutting off what could be flowers.”...
The women who would be war heroes
Kristin Hannah’s novel is based on military nurses’ firsthand accounts of their experiences in Vietnam.
A House Far Away
I see it from my back window, the one overlooking trees in the summer, bare branches in the winter....
Pages soaked in mystery
Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs Through It.