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Objects in a novel or story are created, chosen, and hand-delivered by the author, and as such they all quiver with meaning.

An excerpt from Randy Boyagoda’s forthcoming novel, ‘Dante’s Indiana’

The terms of service of nearly every app make personal data commercially available.

Biles’s unwillingness to “power through” was a “no” to the sanctification of grit and the legacy of abuse faced by both U.S. gymnasts and Black women.

The U.S. sanctions on Cuba are devastating, indiscriminate, and nearly comprehensive, affecting the daily lives of millions of citizens.

“To encounter the Catholic Church is to touch and smell and taste; to shiver. So too in the queer world.”

A new documentary explores the power of Black music at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969.

The strange, syncopated, joyful, and utterly inimitable music of Etheridge Knight’s poems

Canadian bishops still won’t confront the shameful legacy of residential schools.

Journalistic values are moral values, and on this measure The Pillar fails.

The protests in Cuba may provide an opportunity for Cuban citizens to empower themselves, if they are properly supported.

Ecological systems—fungi in particular—provide a way to consider interdependence and relationships outside of competition and neoliberalism.

The Tridentine rite won’t bring back a golden age in the Church. But defenders of liturgical reform shouldn’t be complacent about their own problems.