At first, the opening of Interstellar seems to set the tone for the rest of the film, one of high-minded idealism about NASA, outer space …
Aficionados of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels will be aware that black tie (tuxedo for our American cousins) was considered for most of the twentieth century … Read More ›
“I believe that poetry is an action, ephemeral or solemn, in which there enter as equal partners solitude and solidarity, emotion and action, the nearness … Read More ›
Questions of meaning, for the individual and for the broader reality enmeshing him, have arisen in all generations. From this agon of great souls wrestling … Read More ›
I’m losing my oldest friend. Six years ago my wife — my love and half of me — died. Two years later, my cousin, with whom I shared …
The world began with a garden. “This is not new information,” you say. True. Nevertheless, it is an amazing thing to contemplate. Eden must …
Jesus performed one of his most interesting miracles on the blind man outside Bethsaida. Mark 8: 22–25 tells how friends of a blind man took …
I spent this last year planning my wedding, which is to say, I spent the year chronically busy and stressed. I don’t think I was … Read More ›
Headlines of civilian deaths in recent fighting rightly provoke investigations, soul-searching, and sometimes disciplinary or legal actions against some of those responsible …