Who better to combat the absurd, dark joke at the heart of the rise of Trumpism than someone like Al Franken?
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Disability without sentimentality: a stage actor’s journey
Well crafted stories about the “disabled experience” are still new, and too few-and-far between.
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Patricia Lockwood was the daughter of a priest—and everyone knew it.
‘I saw the Catholic Church from the inside, like a tauntaun.’
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A Jesuit perspective on Harry Potter
Religious studies professor William Reiser, S.J., reflects on his use of Harry Potter in the classroom.
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James Comey deserves a Daytime Emmy
It’s not that Mr. Comey told a bunch of lies and covered them up with a prize-winning performance. It’s that facts can sound like lies when you tell them under pressure. Mr. Comey, who has had experience testifying before Congress, didn’t buckle to the pressure.
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Brian Doyle once wrote, ‘stories are prayers.’ He has left us with many.
For much longer than a moment, let us consider the revered Catholic writer’s literary generosity.
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Harry Styles belongs in the modern rock canon. There, I said it.
Harry Styles’ first solo album, “Harry Styles,” has a ‘70s, tender space-rock feel, but with enough of its own vibe that it can stand on its own alongside contemporary guardians of rock.
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What “S-Town” gets wrong about life in rural America
“S-Town” borders on being another American “poverty tour,” which rarely benefits those who are on display.
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Junot Díaz talks Dominican identity, immigration and the (complicated) American Dream
The American dream is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz.
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Reflecting on the frightening lessons of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
If anyone doubted the damage a shallow, sanitized Marian ideal of womanhood could inflict—on women, on faith and on the church—Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ shows us.