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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 & CultureIdeas
Margaret Tucker
In ‘Wings of Desire,’ Damiel is tired of pretense, tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Mary Callistas
This year I’ll feel the light of the tomb on my own bones
Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud), right, plays a sexual abuse victim in ‘By the Grace of God’ (photo: IMDB).
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
François Ozon has created a film that is connected organically to its subject matter, one that breathes and writhes and grieves in synch with its victims.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
A story about a patriarch who keeps humiliating his children.
Arts & CultureBooks
Ryan Di Corpo
In all, Father Collins understands Newman not as “a stainless saint,” but as a dutiful friend and a multifaceted defender of the Catholic faith. 
Arts & CultureBooks
Kaya Oakes
The question of what a pilgrimage means in the modern day loops throughout Timothy Egan’s ‘A Pilgrimage to Eternity.’