Released in April 2017, “DAMN.” portrays Kendrick Lamar’s internal torment as he struggles with his faith.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ shows the trauma behind the creation of ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’
“Goodbye, Christopher Robin” is a dramatic look at the life of the British writer A. A. Milne and his strained relationship with his son.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis speaks candidly to the church in a new book of interviews
Pope Francis confessed that while he has “chutzpah,” “I am also timid.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Can we overcome racism? Ta-Nehisi Coates grapples with white backlash to the first black president
‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ is a sort of “I told you so,” though Coates takes little pleasure in having to say it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What it’s like to wait for a loved one missing in war
Barton Cross, a Navy serviceman, was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Then his brothers tried to get him back.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Is Salman Rushdie the novelist we need to capture America under Trump?
Rushdie is a writer keen to take on big, messy matters—and few are bigger or messier these days than American life at home and abroad.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Superman with a Racket
The greatest athletes transcend mere games. They soar above competition, tower over leagues, fuel economies and even change societies. They always represent more; on the field, in the ring and off the court. The truly great ones even continue to touch lives when they’re not competing. Burning with passion, a love of the game so […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Why do they dislike us? An American in Turkey seeks an answer.
Suzy Hansen’s ‘Notes on a Foreign Country’ is not a romantic ‘Eat Pray Love’-style tale of self-discovery.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
F. Scott Fitzgerald: a novelist who was Catholic, but not a ‘Catholic novelist’
F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the American dream primarily through its failures to bring happiness to his main characters.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
An intimate look at the bond between Dorothy Day and her daughter Tamar
Beauty is the medium through which Kate Hennessy describes her mother and grandmother.