As a high school student in a rigorous art program, she had been drawn to Impressionism. Its tension—between precision and subjectivity, seeing clearly and feeling deeply—marks Leilani’s fiction output.
Brandon Sanchez
Brandon Sanchez is an audience voices reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was an O’Hare fellow at America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Review: Kanye’s infatuation with the prosperity gospel (and himself)
Part of me winces at “Jesus Is King,” as though it were a decaying tooth. But if I’m honest, another part of me is drawn to the rot.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Tiny scriptures of truth: America’s 2019 poetry roundup
New American poetry that spans the globe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Why you should skip ‘The Goldfinch’ movie and pick up the book instead
Some things you just need to read.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Kickball, Sia and 3 a.m. pizza: An O’Hare Fellow reflects on his year at America Media
You need to find laughs wherever you can; God is in laughter.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
What does America look like in 2019? The Whitney Biennial asks and answers.
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis calls Trump’s border policy ‘cruel,’ compares southern barriers to Berlin Wall
In an interview on Mexican television that first got attention for his comments about former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis condemned Donald Trump’s “cruel” immigration policies, delivering a sharp rebuke to a president whose anti-immigrant rhetoric has defined his time in office.
Posted inFaith, News
Brazilian Jews were persecuted for centuries. Now they’re finding their place in society.
“Now I’m a proud member of this group and feel that my mission is to show my fellow Brazilians the Jewish roots we have — which were taken out from us.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. bishops ‘gravely disappointed’ with House passage of Equality Act
Five U.S. bishops, chairmen of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees or subcommittees, said May 17 they were “gravely disappointed” with the U.S. House of Representatives passage of the Equality Act.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
HBO’s ‘Veep’ bows out in character, after years of watching reality catch up to it
A political satire with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a constant presidential candidate, “Veep” gleefully exposed the hollowness of unbridled ambition, and it was fun (if also dread-inducing) through Sunday’s finale.