This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Binta Niambi Brown, a talent manager in the music and entertainment industry, about the need for Catholics to denounce Kanye West’s anti-Black and antisemitic remarks.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Broadway’s ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ uses the hilarious and profane in a restless search for moral clarity
As ever, Stephen Adly Guirgis writes hilarious, profane dialogue and puts his characters in contention over matters both petty and portentous.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’: Christmas carols don’t have to sound joyful to turn our hearts to Jesus
Where a lot of Catholic Christmas hymns lean into the more fantastical elements—angels, stars, kings—“In the Bleak Midwinter” points us instead to the ordinary.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Who is allowed to write about pedophilia?
“Downstate,” Bruce Norris’s new off-Broadway play about a group home for pedophile, raises the question: Who gets to write about pedophilia? And what are they allowed to say?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ and the dark Catholic imagination of Martin McDonagh
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Argentina vs. France: Whom should Catholics root for in the World Cup final?
France has long been known as “the eldest daughter of the church.” Argentina is the home of Pope Francis. What’s a Catholic to do?
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Coalsack Nebula
I am always imploring you to tell me, beloved, if you have left me forever?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A tribute to a teacher
In his latest novel, Julian Barnes returns to his strategy of merging history, fiction and memoir to pay tribute to a beloved teacher.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When France invaded Mexico—and tried to impose a Catholic monarchy
For a brief period in the 19th century, Mexico was ruled by a Hapsburg prince installed by France and named emperor. The story is told brilliantly in Edward Shawcross’s new history, ‘The Last Emperor of Mexico.’