Although only a small minority of L.G.B.T. Catholics will ever seek conversion therapy, the assumptions underlying that therapy often influence the message many gay Catholics hear in the confessional and from friends and mentors.

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Stephen Graham Jones's new novel creates an extraordinary portrait of sacrifice and costly reconciliation.

For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.

If our first instinct is to defend “the church,” have we really learned the lessons of the sexual abuse crisis?

The director Bruno Dumont has said that movies can “look beyond the visible to explore something that reason can’t.”

In “Blood Quantum,” the past isn’t dead—it’s coming to get you.

The value of work is that it gives structure to life’s chaos; it is simple, intelligible even when your own heart is baffling; it lets you be of service to others, making every job well done a kind of living amends; and, above all, good work brings humility.

The final season of “BoJack Horseman” gives many of its characters endings about as happy as they can manage.