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Maya Hawke pictured playing Flannery O’Connor opening a letter by a mailbox in the biopic ‘Wildcat’
Arts & Culture Film
October 31, 2023
“Wildcat,” the new film by Ethan Hawke about the life of Flannery O’Connor, is not your typical biopic, a fact that seems entirely appropriate since O’Connor is not your typical writer.
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (Fox Searchlight)
Arts & Culture Film
December 16, 2022
Martin McDonagh’s new movie “The Banshees of Inisherin” serves up sad enough stuff to leave viewers crying in our beer. But first we laugh.
Andy Warhol (MARKA / Alamy Stock Photo)
Arts & Culture Art
June 30, 2022
Andy Warhol remains an enigma.
Arts & Culture Books
March 31, 2022
Writing in honor of Dante and in conversation with him, Angela O'Donnell recognizes the enormous impact his imagination had on our worldview.
Arts & Culture Poetry
March 16, 2022
Tiny Lazarus. Your story bigger than you and us.
Arts & Culture Television
April 09, 2021
A new PBS documentary makes us ask: Is it possible to admire the art produced by a writer whom the reader dislikes, disdains, perhaps even despises?
Arts & Culture Books
October 25, 2019
"The Five Quintets" is a narrative we need, a jazz concert performed by hundreds of instruments, a single symphony sung by many voices.
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954). Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943. Oil on hardboard, 30 x 24 in. (76 x 61 cm). The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art and the Vergel Foundation. © 2019 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Arts & Culture Art
April 19, 2019
Kahlo’s paintings, the vast majority of which are self-portraits, are rife with self-revelation,
Arts & Culture Poetry
February 08, 2019
I see them lining up for slaughter,/ Judas at the head of the pack/ grunting his way to survival, while my/ pigs do not stand a chance, doomed creatures/ that they are, and it’s a good thing.
Arts & Culture Ideas
August 08, 2018
Letter writing is a genre O'Connor would master after she was diagnosed with lupus and exiled to her mother’s farm.