Category Culture

The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus, Andrew Klavan, Zondervan, 272 pages The world is too much with us; late and soon,…

“A poem is never done,” the writer Sandra Cisneros told me in July, over dinner at La Posadita, a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, the Mexican city where she’s lived for almost ten years. Wearing a black-and-white huipil and…

It often takes a few moments to recognize Samuel Fosso in his self-portraits. He’s a picture of otherworldly piety as the first Black Pope, stepping on a space rock as though ready to catechize the cosmos. (It’s a cheeky allusion…

During quarantine, for those of us lucky enough to be able to work remotely, home became our whole world. Restrictions have lifted, and many have been able to resume trips not just to the office but to the movie theatre,…

In Margaret Brown’s documentary “Descendant,” a man named Anderson Flen walks through the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, and wonders aloud about the people who walked there before him, people who had less freedom and fewer opportunities. He’s from Africatown, a…

Kahn said that he still doubts whether he made the correct choice—even whether there was such a thing—but he doesn’t regret it, either. Alex Kahn was raised Jewish—he celebrated his bar mitzvah and went to shul with his family a…

Often, the appeal in playing The Sims is watching humanoids navigate barely exaggerated scenarios inspired by your own life: finding a job, finding love, and, with luck, living to see old age. Major game-play additions—“expansion packs”—can propel the game ever…

I wanted to write this review as soon as possible after seeing the movie, in order to preserve my favorable impressions and before making the logical queries that could risk dispelling them. I’d recommend not scrutinizing “Pinball: The Man Who…

My father died, of cancer, when he was fifty-two. He wasn’t, as far as I know, into sports or exercise of any kind. He was trim, about six feet. He smoked, he drank coffee, he combed his thick black hair…

The essence of the cinema is the symbol—the filming of action that stands for something else, that gets its identity from what’s offscreen. There’s plenty of action in Jordan Peele’s new film, “Nope,” and it’s imaginative and exciting if viewed purely…