Voices
Ciaran Freeman is an art teacher at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., and is a former O’Hare fellow at America Media.
Arts & CultureBooks
More than the costumes and settings, it is that humanity at the heart of Molly Shannon’s comedy which makes it Catholic to the core.
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Joseph Ross, an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C., says poetry requires us to look deeply at the world around us.
Arts & CultureBooks
Sally Rooney writes for an audience that lacks faith in an institutional church, yet yearns for something to believe in. She writes for me and my friends.
Arts & CultureBooks
Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.
Arts & CultureArt
“Black is not the absence of color. Black is a particular color,” the artist Kerry James Marshall tells us. The particularity of Blackness as it pertains to art is the backbone of this documentary.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Class gets placed front and center in this upstairs-downstairs romance between an upper class girl and her maid’s son.
Arts & CultureFilm
Waves is a film with strong film with a moving story, dynamic themes, and complex characters. But plot holes married with production missteps left me asking many questions.
Arts & CultureFilm
Catholic schools are the perfect setting for a film. These are the best 10.
Arts & CultureArchitecture
Part sculpture, part landmark, it is unclear what purpose the structure plays in the public sphere.
Arts & CultureArt
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?