
Discovering Guilt and Grace in the Flesh
In Sonnez les Matines, humor most truly speaks of weighty matters.

In Sonnez les Matines, humor most truly speaks of weighty matters.

17th century Dutch painter Frans Hals, subject of an exhibition at London’s National Gallery, transformed portraiture into a recognized artform.

In this operatic wonder, the characters’ passions are otherworldly in their intensity.

Peyo’s original Smurfs series offers readers a glimpse into a beautiful, sylvan world of medievalist wonder and adventure.

The success of Filip is that it combines the moving and the dramatic in perfect harmony.

“Like the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, the new Leviathans are engineers of souls.”—John Gray

The inaccuracies are so numerous and glaring that an entire film could be made to document its errors alone.

Few will read Time to Think without realising that something went badly wrong at the Tavistock clinic.

In her exploration of East Germany, Hoyer doesn’t present socialism with a human face, but she does present the human faces of socialism.

The passion is palpable, but there is a smallness to the sets that cools the fire in the characters’ souls.
In 42 short meditations on a wide range of topics, Hubert van Zeller presents the universal call to holiness by bluntly addressing common tendencies in man. His writing has a British 1950s charm, yet cuts to what is essential in a way that feels modern and relevant.
This graphic novel was clearly crafted by two men who share a love of older superhero comics, even as they used their work to interrogate the genre and the world that produced it.
What do we do when we realize that we understand neither ourselves nor our world? Anderson thinks the answer is the same, whether in life, faith, studies, or art.
Lobmeyr’s lighting creations can be found in some of the leading opera houses in the world.
The future need not be bleak, as Benson’s novel reminds us.
Although at first glance, The Island Without Seasons is merely an adventure story about a man trying to discover the lost city of Atlantis, it is ultimately about how the man’s search allows him to better understand himself and the world in which he lives.
In program interviews, director Marcin Łakomicki and conductor Markus Stenz suggest that Holländer is really about sexism in modern society and a reinforcement of gender roles. A modern European man educated in what passes for the humanities today might think so. But the deeper contexts are ignored.
A seeming joke about two movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, is actually pointing to a renewal of American cinema that may be on the horizon.
It must not be forgotten that these people are less concerned with producing energy in ways that will allow us to maintain our standards of living and make economic progress than with being ‘anti-capitalist.’
The problem for libertarians is not that their ideology cannot inspire policy reform. Their problem is their lack of courage.
Benedict Rogers drives home the point that, in addition to the economic, social, and geopolitical concerns about China, there are human beings who are suffering as a result of lukewarm activity or, worse, benign acquiescence.
Hungary has produced singers who built international careers, and two of them were on hand to fill leading roles here.