Voices
Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Esquire. His books include Ember Days, a collection of stories and Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction.
Arts & CultureIdeas
The television series about an urban Catholic church was groundbreaking, and there has been nothing like it since.
Arts & CultureTelevision
It is a great set up for a television series—and yes, the comparisons to Scully and Mulder are warranted.
Arts & CultureBooks
"An Orchestra of Minorities" is a profoundly tragic story of ambition and despair and how both come from the struggle to love.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jordan Peele’s incarnation of the show will certainly get people thinking—and talking.
Arts & CultureBooks
A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.
Arts & CultureBooks
“Anyone can do any amount of work,” wrote the American humorist Robert Benchley, “provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” Procrastination is an act of will, the choice to postpone what needs to be done. We are lying to ourselves when we procrastinate—yet everybody does it. For some, procrastination is endemic to creation. For others, it is an act of survival.
Arts & CultureBooks
The simultaneous pull of love and sadness is pure Cheever and permeates his Christmas story.
Arts & CultureBooks
At a moment when reporters are being criticized from all sides, 'The Quiet American' feels painfully prescient.
FaithFeatures
In 1949, a priest with a searchlight spotted something puzzling in the sky. The mystery remains unexplained.
Arts & CultureBooks
In Brimhall’s work, Catholicism is a faith that marries the sensual and the sacred.