Books & Arts
Not Beanbag
Ignatieff’s constructive approach to politics, like his commitments to democracy and social justice, remains untainted by the bitter experiences he describes.
Squeaky Hinge
Thomas Cahill's words are not easy to understand but point to a persistent presentism, a tendency to view the past through the lens of the present.
Witness
'Story of a Secret State' promises an insider’s perspective on Poland’s Home Army, the largest resistance organization in Nazi-occupied Europe --- and delivers it.
Borrowed Voices
Averill Curdy’s poems seek to widen the reader’s sense of self by finding room for several selves, real and imagined, within a single mind.
American Innocence
'The Irony of American History' shines a klieg light on the so-called war on terror and the current debate over the operations of our “national security state."
Odd Couples
Judi Dench radiates from a still center, and Emma Thompson confirms that she is the best movie actress in the English-speaking world.
Poem | Springtime in Chicago in November
Springtime in Chicago in November. / My forty-first year to heaven. / My left hand wants to know / what my right hand is doing.
Seeing as God Sees
Karen Kilby, Luke Timothy Johnson, and Bernard G. Prusak reassess Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life.'
What Is He Up To?
Our problems with 'The Tree of Life' are likewise problems with Malick’s peculiar cinematic language.
'The Use of Cinema to Do Theology'
There is no mistaking Malick’s theological intentions, nor for that matter the academic credentials he possesses to make such an effort.
'How All Things Fit Together'
One way of understanding Malick's film is as an attempt to present a vision of, precisely, everything.
Calling Cards of the Dead
This powerful show constitutes a record of those often unnamed individuals of the Civil War era, documented through the then-new medium of photography.
