Griffin Oleynick

Article

Cruelty at the Border

Thousands of migrants are now camping along the border in Ciudad Juárez, enduring squalid conditions as they await responses from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

By Griffin Oleynick

October 25, 2019

Feature

The Video Art of Bill Viola

A new show at the Barnes in Philadelphia transports audiences into the heart of the Bill Viola’s pioneering inquiries into the phenomenon of visual perception.

September 2, 2019

Article

‘That All May Be One’

Two films by the late Italian director Ermanno Olmi reveal his abiding interest in Catholicism as an antidote to the spiritual emptiness of modernity.

July 4, 2019

Article

Resurrection without Redemption

Abel Ferrara’s new biopic about Pier Paolo Pasolini evinces a highly personal, anti-institutional strain of Catholicism—where grace abounds in squalor and scandal.

June 17, 2019

Feature

Sounding the Secret Depths

A new show at the Guggenheim museum showcases Hilma af Klint, a radical Swedish artist whose work pioneered spiritual abstraction

December 6, 2018

Article

‘Go and Do Likewise’

The U.S. church may be a long way from practicing synodality, but the Synod on Young People has something to teach us, if only we're willing to listen

November 15, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

The Future of American Labor

Organized labor was once the backbone of American democracy. A new book argues that the future of collective bargaining requires adaptation to new economies.

By Joseph A. McCartin

October 28, 2019

Religion

Rawls & Theodicy

Did liberalism originate in a kind of theodicy? And is there any reason to suppose that egalitarian liberalism is or has to be theological? Not necessarily.

By Samuel Moyn

October 30, 2019

Culture

Unmagical Realism

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez wanted to be known more for his journalistic prose than his novels. A new collection reveals the flaws of that desire.

By Catherine Addington

October 31, 2019

Books

Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.

By Katherine Lucky

October 9, 2019

Books

Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.

By Anthony Domestico

September 27, 2019

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019