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Arts & CultureDispatches
Jim McDermott
“Daredevil” talks about religion in a way that feels authentic—yet remains inviting to those who don't share our beliefs.
Thomas Lynch and Alice McDermott at Fordham University (Leo Sorel/Fordham News).
Arts & Culture
Alice McDermottThomas Lynch
Two Irish-American writers engage questions of mortality with the sense of humor proper to a wake.
Arts & CultureBooks
John A. Coleman
'Inventing American Religion,' by Robert Wuthnow
Arts & CulturePoetry
Dana Gioia
Jacobnever climbed the ladderburning in his dream. Sleeppressed him like a stonein the dust,and whenhe should have risenlike a flame to jointhat choir, he was sickof traveling,and closedhis eyes to the Seraphimascending, unconsciousof the impossible distancesbetween their steps,missedthem mount the
FOR THE WIN. Stephan James, center, as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis, right, as Larry Snyder in “Race”
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Race” is a movie about personal victory and national guilt—neither Hitler nor Franklin Roosevelt ever shook Owens’s hand.
Mark Strong and company in “A View From the Bridge” (photo: Jan Versweyveld)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Arthur Miller's 'A View From the Bridge' stripped to its essence is a painful family tragedy.