“For my kids, using their imaginations isn’t just a way to pass the time; it’s a spiritual survival strategy, one that just might help us parents survive, too.”
Physical objects carry meaning for us, but their accumulation can be a kind of spiritual error. Reconciling this contradiction leads us to richer, deeper lives.
I didn’t realize how hard it would be to see people attending Mass this way. Faces I’ve known for years, obscured for protection. Suddenly, we were all very fragile.
Watching Doc Martin again has reminded me that village life is full of petty jealousies and irrational resentments, but also strong communitarian ties.
A look at each of the six novels on the Booker International Prize shortlist: from fable to satire, from Argentina to the Netherlands, each an admirable work of art.
Many films have been made about the senselessness and brutality of war. But Elem Klimov’s ‘Come and See’ deserves renewed attention for its masterful ambiguity.
As cases of the novel coronavirus rise again across the United States, we’re reminded of our mortal fragility, but also of God’s promise of eternal life.
Shirley Jackson is known today primarily as a writer of literary suspense. But she was also a wife, and a mother, roles examined by a new film on Hulu.
As Colson Whitehead argues in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the legacy of injustice is not something we can simply move past. Old crimes continue to shape us.
Telling the story of two friends in the Oregon territory who steal milk to bake cakes, Kelly Reichardt’s latest film asks us to ponder the nature of generosity.
Facing the challenges and dangers posed by the pandemic, one cannot simply rely on or blame those in authority. Good government now matters more than ever.
In 'Softness of Bodies,' the story of a flighty young poet in Berlin pivots from comedy to drama, from shoplifted shoes to darker issues of money and violence.
Administration officials asked to judge the president fairly often find themselves out of a job when their consciences come into conflict with Trump’s demands.
