“Russian Doll” is kind of a Jewish “Fleabag” meets time travel, a mind-bending exploration of trauma that reads like an exercise in self-therapy.
Arts & Culture
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Review: What is a woman?
Kaya Oakes offers reflections on what it means to live as a woman today. This meaning grappling with growing older in a society and a church that both continue to prize feminine youth, fecundity and docility above all else.
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Review: The history of Yellowstone, our greatest national park
Readable, well researched and carefully documented, ‘Saving Yellowstone’ does not get bogged down in minutiae in its history of the park.
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Review: The limits of the human body
In ‘The Body Scout,’ Lincoln Michel explores the limits of what it means to be human through a future in which companies tempt consumers with upgrades—new arms, organs and more.
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Review: Ten tales of Dubliners
In his new 10-story collection, Roddy Doyle tells stories of catastrophes—unemployment, a deadly storm and Covid-19—and their socioeconomic and psychological fallout on Irish families.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The fall
I mistake my friend for a gun, and he
offers to smuggle me out of harm.
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Lord of Hope and Misery
I eat sugar cookies for breakfast.
I should eat bird seed.
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Discernment of Spirits
for years I’d be the cranky older son,
jealous about the party.
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‘Stranger Things’ brings Kate Bush’s Catholic hope to a new generation
Kate Bush’s 1985 hit “Running Up that Hill” has exploded across pop culture. But it’s more than just the song in “Stranger Things.” It’s also deeply religious.