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November 2023

November 21, 2023

Goodfellas of the Flower Moon

NB: This post is cross-posted at my substack, where most of my less-official and more-experimental...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

I’m Not Gay and So Can You!: Notes & an Interview on Greg Johnson’s History of the Ex-Gay Movement

I finally read Greg Johnson's Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the...

March 2021

March 01, 2021

The Long Shadow of the 1990s: A short movie note

I recently watched 17 Blocks on streaming. This is a documentary shot over almost twenty...

January 2021

January 09, 2021

Search and Rescue: John Edgar Wideman’s “Writing to Save a Life”

I read Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File is a very personal...

December 2020

December 16, 2020

Alms to Oblivion: My decade in writing

Which I'm doing a year late, apparently, because I didn't bother before. Anyway this is...

July 2020

July 06, 2020

“Don’t Hide from the Sins of Saint Louis”

I'm in America: I will pour forth tears until like a river they reach Unto...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

The Empty Tomb of the Past: Three short book reviews

Ending with Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, for today's holiday. Lillian Lee, Farewell My Concubine. I spotted...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

The Past Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Unevenly Distributed: Two book reviews

of two very different books, which both riff on events in the living memory of...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

“An Image of God”: The Catholic Struggle Against Eugenics and Its Lessons for Today

Perhaps the most famous statement in the American history of eugenics is Supreme Court Justice...

October 2019

October 05, 2019

I’ll Always Love a Guilty Party

So I just finished two slender novels released only a year apart, which read like...

August 2019

August 13, 2019

A New Pop Musical About the Six Wives of Henry VIII

I was in London recently for a family vacation. Lots of new discoveries, including Sue...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

In Violent Times: Three short movie reviews

There are three signs posted up in the gay bar we see in Paul Bogart's...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Medieval Eucharistic Piety, And My Own: They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread

Alongside the Crucifixion, the Eucharist--and specifically the Real Presence, the literal transformation of the bread...

March 12, 2019

I Review a Collection of Pre-WWI Socialist Fairy Tales

at First Things: When I was a girl, I had a picture book, The Day the...

February 2019

February 10, 2019

Down the Wrong Road, Both Ways

Toward the end of 2017, I think, I started doing something which I eventually called...

February 08, 2019

I Believe the Correct Term Is “Worlds War II”: Short movie & book reviews on a theme

Arts and entertainments from four nations caught in the catastrophe of the century of progress....

January 2019

January 25, 2019

Bringing Your Pilgrimage Home: I write about World Youth Day & Adoptive Brotherhood

at the Catholic Herald: In 1985, two historians traveled through Turkey and the Middle East...

January 20, 2019

Desert Hearts: I watch “The Jewish Cardinal”

Lord, if this is how You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few...

January 10, 2019

I Shall Do Thee Mischief in The Anvil: I watch “Cruising”

Cruising, the 1980 sleaze thriller where Al Pacino goes undercover in the New York leather/s&m...

January 07, 2019

“Confession in America”: I review a history of an individualist country

and her Church: In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Three Fictional Retellings of Violent Christian History

Two of them are good. One of them is not good! ...Plus bonus Pope Emeritus...

August 2018

August 01, 2018

Reckless Love: Notes on Revoice ’18

# I asked a lot of people what had been the highlight of the conference...

May 2018

May 06, 2018

You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Three Films About the Aftermath of the Sixties

I recently watched The Big Chill and Return of the Secaucus 7 one after the...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

Catholic People’s Histories, Gay People’s Futures

So there are way more orthodox gay people, seeking to live in obedience to the...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

I Review “The Devil’s Workshop,” Czech Satire of Genocide Tourism

at FareForward: In 2005 a Czech novelist writes a book, one of the rare Czech...

January 07, 2018

That Great Drowned Atlantis, The ’90s

I've been doing a thing where I bring various periods of my life, and the...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Sisters and Survivors: Yaa Gyasi, “Homegoing”

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, Homegoing, is the uneven execution of a brilliant and haunting premise....

October 2017

October 27, 2017

“Save Our Slums”: I read Alan Moore’s JERUSALEM

for Modern Age: Alan Moore lives in the past, and who can blame him? The...

October 23, 2017

Blue Moon: My tribute to/critique of 1985 lesbian classic film “Desert Hearts”

is at Commonweal: Donna Deitch always intended Desert Hearts to be not only a lesbian...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

“The Alphabet and the Inevitability of Death in Early Protestant America”: Fantastic little piece

from the Smithsonian: Do you remember the books that helped you learn to read—maybe Dick...