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Dec 5, 2025
By now, you have probably heard about Train Dreams. Since premiering this past January at Sundance, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella has been lauded...
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Nov 11, 2025
There is a story in one of Hebel’s almanacs about a man lost in a mine collapse. The man went to work in the bloom of his youth—and fifty years later, when a group of...
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Nov 5, 2025
For three decades now, the director Kelly Reichardt has been making films about American escape artists: drifters and dreamers, rough sleepers and revolutionaries, full-of-it...
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Sep 19, 2025
Whither the men?
Not in your local bookstore, that’s for sure. For the past several years, writers and pundits have been wringing their hands over how few men are supposedly...
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Aug 18, 2025
What are we to do with ourselves, in this broken world? This question flits through Stone Yard Devotional, the latest novel from Australian writer Charlotte Wood. At the...
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Apr 24, 2025
About ten years ago, during a season of great freedom, I went for a hike in the Scottish Highlands. I had been living for some months in Ireland, thumbing rides and climbing...
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Mar 12, 2025
I’m thinking of a piece of filmed entertainment. It was adapted from a famous, internationally significant novel. It was blessed with lavish budgets, accomplished directors,...
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Mar 4, 2025
Is Being fundamentally a state, or an act? Is humanhood something we are, or that we do? For Heidegger, we only exist as relational creatures, embedded in a web of connections, and...
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Jan 29, 2025
Teotihuacan was, once, the center of the world. The pre-Aztec Teotihuacanos modeled their great capital in what is now central Mexico on the universe itself, imbuing their everyday...
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Jan 23, 2025
Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the...
Dec 5, 2025By now, you have probably heard about Train Dreams. Since premiering this past January at Sundance, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella has been lauded...
Nov 11, 2025There is a story in one of Hebel’s almanacs about a man lost in a mine collapse. The man went to work in the bloom of his youth—and fifty years later, when a group of...
Nov 5, 2025For three decades now, the director Kelly Reichardt has been making films about American escape artists: drifters and dreamers, rough sleepers and revolutionaries, full-of-it...
Sep 19, 2025Whither the men? Not in your local bookstore, that’s for sure. For the past several years, writers and pundits have been wringing their hands over how few men are supposedly...
Aug 18, 2025What are we to do with ourselves, in this broken world? This question flits through Stone Yard Devotional, the latest novel from Australian writer Charlotte Wood. At the...
Apr 24, 2025About ten years ago, during a season of great freedom, I went for a hike in the Scottish Highlands. I had been living for some months in Ireland, thumbing rides and climbing...
Mar 12, 2025I’m thinking of a piece of filmed entertainment. It was adapted from a famous, internationally significant novel. It was blessed with lavish budgets, accomplished directors,...
Mar 4, 2025Is Being fundamentally a state, or an act? Is humanhood something we are, or that we do? For Heidegger, we only exist as relational creatures, embedded in a web of connections, and...
Jan 29, 2025Teotihuacan was, once, the center of the world. The pre-Aztec Teotihuacanos modeled their great capital in what is now central Mexico on the universe itself, imbuing their everyday...
Jan 23, 2025Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the...