Before I begin, an obvious warning: I will discuss spoilers here. Another obvious warning: this is a long piece and it goes into the brush at various points. My hope is that, in the end, it comes together into something reasonably cohesive—but that is, of course, up to the reader to decide. A third warning: […]

Boyhood’s twelve-year-long view of time serves to reorient our perspective about what is important and meaningful in a lifetime.

Gett is the end of a series of films about the failed marriage of the Amsalems. In To Take A Wife (2004) and 7 Days (2008), Viviane is already desperate to leave their marriage, which has grown cold over differences in observance of Jewish law, tradition, and Elisha’s efforts to conserve his Moroccan heritage. These films are all dense […]

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Is feminism heresy? Leithart offers no definition of how he uses the word “feminism” and he doesn’t even offer any clues to help us. There is no accounting for the […]

These last two episodes of Mad Men have felt either disproportionate or clumsy. This is, I think, because life is both disproportionate and clumsy. It is common for critics to excuse the shortcomings of TV shows with this same logic. A script takes a left turn into fan service, or really fumbles some aspect of a series […]

In the wake of domestic violence, new kinship structures are crucial to providing safe spaces of healing and to developing communal practices of resistance.

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. An illustrated guide to Don Draper’s romantic liasons: “I really wanted to see exactly how promiscuous Don was. I figured it’d be interesting to see how the ladies would look as […]

Several pieces displayed in an art museum exhume the challenging past that led one young poet to a renewed sense of faith.

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Holy Week and the art of loosing: Each Maundy Thursday, the members of our church’s altar guild carefully and lovingly remove the candelabra, cross, vessels, fine linens and paraments from […]