To those who are already exhausted by the all-A.I., all-the-time reporting of 2023, have no fear: “Mrs. Davis” is not a show about A.I., not really.

After a stint in rehab, a break up from his wife followed almost immediately by a new relationship and then a baby with the actress Olivia Munn, comedian John Mulaney is back with a new Netflix special, “Baby J.”

Shusaku Endo may not have liked the title “greatest Japanese Catholic novelist,” but his works—including ‘Silence’—are powerful meditations on the nature of belief and the vitality and viability of Christianity.

A profile of Shusaku Endo from 1992, three years after America awarded the famous Japanese Catholic novelist the Campion Award.

The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.

Rewrite God’s poems until the mob in us froths at the mouth.