Abstraction is fundamentally inhuman, even anti-human.

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

“I was very much introduced to the Catholic world through Buckley,” David Brooks says about William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review and one of the leading intellectuals of the conservative movement in the United States beginning in the mid-1950s.

The long pilgrimage of David Brooks has led him to explore Christianity and embrace a life lived in tension.

Morrison’s work conveyed the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience.

“Hadestown,” “The Good Place” and “Fleabag” tackle life’s big questions.