Voices
Colm O'Shea teaches essay writing at New York University. He is the author of the sci-fi novel Claiming De Wayke (Crossroad Press) and the academic monograph James Joyce's Mandala (Routledge). Visit him at colmoshea.com.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Aldous Huxley convinced me to try psychedelic drugs. Thomas Merton gave me a healthy suspicion of them.
Arts & CultureFilm
How did this Wonka, unfazed and insisting that salvation is at hand, become the jaded, suspicious entity we know he will become?