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October 28, 2019

Vol. 221 / No. 10

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In Wim Wenders’s film “Wings of Desire,” the protagonist, an angel named Damiel (Bruno Ganz), is tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit (photo: Alamy).
Arts & Culture Ideas
Margaret TuckerOctober 18, 2019

In ‘Wings of Desire,’ Damiel is tired of pretense, tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit.

Arts & Culture Books
Olga SeguraSeptember 13, 2019

"Dominicana" tells the story of 15-year-old Ana Canción.

Wendell Berry (photo: Guy Mendes)
Arts & Culture Books
Jon M. SweeneyOctober 18, 2019

The natural world is Wendell Berry’s primary teacher: its rhythms, its largesse, its mysteries.

Arts & Culture Books
E. M. HillOctober 18, 2019

‘This is My Body,’ by Cameron Dezen Hammon, is a warning about how a feminist can fall prey to and rationalize the pervasiveness of misogyny, despite his or her best intentions.

Arts & Culture Books
Jack DowneyOctober 18, 2019

As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.

Workers from China are eager to show that a Chinese factory can prosper in the United States in ‘American Factory’ (photo: Netflix).
Arts & Culture Television
Vincent J. MillerOctober 04, 2019

The Netflix film offers a stunning degree of intimacy through the startup of a factory once run by General Motors.

Arts & Culture Theater
Rob Weinert-KendtOctober 07, 2019

In his sensational new play, Jeremy O. Harris posits that racism may poison our most intimate relationships.