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Mar 13, 2026
What do you listen for in a great movie score? An iconic theme, perhaps, or a meaningful leitmotif that ties the film together. Maybe you want something innovative, compositions that...
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Mar 10, 2026
Coiled at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a shadowy club committed to the “racial purification” of the American populace....
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Feb 12, 2026
“The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.” Thomas Merton wrote...
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Jan 19, 2026
In Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winning Sound of Falling (2025), a large stone farmhouse in the Altmark region of Germany witnesses the lives—and...
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Jan 2, 2026
Every year, I set myself a reading challenge. These are sometimes small—read more poetry; read older books—and sometimes quite large. More than a decade ago, I spent an...
Mar 13, 2026What do you listen for in a great movie score? An iconic theme, perhaps, or a meaningful leitmotif that ties the film together. Maybe you want something innovative, compositions that...
Mar 10, 2026Coiled at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a shadowy club committed to the “racial purification” of the American populace....
Jan 19, 2026In Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winning Sound of Falling (2025), a large stone farmhouse in the Altmark region of Germany witnesses the lives—and...
Jan 2, 2026Every year, I set myself a reading challenge. These are sometimes small—read more poetry; read older books—and sometimes quite large. More than a decade ago, I spent an...