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2014-04-21T09:17:38-04:00

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When My Brother Was an Aztec

Last updated on: April 21, 2014 at 9:17 am By Inez Tan

The title poem of Natalie Diaz’s first collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, introduces the book’s biggest subject: her eldest brother’s meth addiction and its impact on the family. “He lived in our basement and sacrificed my parents/every morning,” writes Diaz. “Neighbors were amazed my parents’ hearts kept/growing back – It said a lot about my parents, or parents’ hearts.” While some of Diaz’s poems confront their subjects straightforwardly, it’s her extended metaphors – which prompt us to... Read more

Book Review

2014-04-17T13:09:05-04:00

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The Doomsday Machine

Last updated on: April 17, 2014 at 1:09 pm By Nick Olson

My wife and I did not see—and have no plans to see—R.I.P.D., The Lone Ranger, Olympus Has Fallen, and various other big budget movie offerings from 2013. However, not long ago, we sat in the comfort of our basement, which is like a home theater, and watched Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha—a buzzed-about 2013 black-and-white American comedy-drama that had a semi-wide theatrical release beginning in May. No cars, skyscrapers, or people were destroyed in Frances Ha, but the scene... Read more

2014-04-14T17:23:03-04:00

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Why We Need Monks

Last updated on: April 14, 2014 at 5:23 pm By J. David Nolan

Religious communities serve as icons of the Christian life. Today more than ever, we need their witness of poverty, chastity, and obedience to counteract our contemporary excesses. “Fathers and teachers, what is a monk?” asks the Elder Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov. “In the enlightened world of today,” he says, referring to Dostoyevsky’s Russia, “this word is uttered in mockery by some, and by others even as a term of abuse. And it gets worse and worse.” Though monasticism... Read more

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2014-04-10T08:31:55-04:00

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Last updated on: April 10, 2014 at 8:31 am By Janine Joly

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” begins with a telescoping narrative device: a young girl—a poor, but kind man’s Lena Dunham—walks through a cemetery to pay tribute to the memory of an author who is buried there. She is dressed in a pink Girl Scout uniform of sorts and carrying a copy of a book entitled The Grand Budapest Hotel which has a stencil drawing of the hotel façade on the cover, also in pink. Think about the color pink. Think of... Read more

Film Review

2014-04-08T09:49:16-04:00

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Omnivory and Christianity

Last updated on: April 8, 2014 at 9:49 am By David Clark

I am a troubled omnivore. Or more precisely: I am a troubled, Christian omnivore. I eat meat, but I do not do so without caution and without doubts; and it is my Christianity that is responsible for much of this caution and many of these doubts. I find the relationship between the Christian and food a very complicated one. On the one hand, the Christian is uniquely situated to recognize the sacramentality of the eating act (and with it, to... Read more

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2014-04-03T08:58:39-04:00

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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

Last updated on: April 3, 2014 at 8:58 am By Inez Tan

Paul Bogard’s The End of Night has as much to say about the night sky as it does about the people who live under it. In his search for the last of our nation’s natural darkness, Bogard makes room for everyone from the president of the unlikely Las Vegas Astronomical Society to a woman who, visiting a dark rural area for the first time, exclaimed, “What are all those white dots in the sky?” The sorry truth is that... Read more

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Book Review

2014-04-02T10:59:43-04:00

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Like a Child

Last updated on: April 2, 2014 at 10:59 am By Laura Marshall

As the oldest of seven kids, I’ve done my fair share of wiping dirty faces, checking for closet monsters, and speculating as to why the sky is blue. But I also grew up in a church that encouraged “child-like faith.” In that church, this phrase was often shorthand for, “We don’t have answers for this, but having questions and worrying about it shows a lack of faith.” Sometimes “this” was a problem the Church has struggled with for ages, such... Read more

2014-04-01T14:31:31-04:00

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Aronofsky’s Noah

Last updated on: April 1, 2014 at 2:31 pm By Charles Clark

In the latest issue of Fare Forward, Andy Quinn argues that “meta-analysis,” our way of obsessing about the terms of a debate rather than the issues at stake, is ruining intellectual discourse (Issue 7, “Everyone’s a Critic”). I think the initial reactions to Darren Aronofsky’s Noah are a prime example. On one side, there is the predictable outrage from fundamentalists over the artistic license taken with the Bible story. On the other side, there is the equally predictable preening... Read more

Movie Review

2014-03-31T20:33:29-04:00

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This Is What We Do

Last updated on: March 31, 2014 at 8:33 pm By Will Seath

A few years ago, Chrysler debuted a slick commercial called “Imported from Detroit,” featuring Eminem cruising past relics of the city’s past industrial and civic glory. The voice-over, backed by the thumping guitar riff of “Lose Yourself,” praises Detroit’s gritty resilience and the unexpected luxury of Chryslers rolling out of its factories. Eminem stops his car under the marquee of a theater. He strides down its aisle toward a robed choir, turning to the close-up camera on stage with the... Read more

2014-03-30T13:48:53-04:00

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Virtue in TV

Last updated on: March 30, 2014 at 1:48 pm By Brandon McGinley

“Everybody lies.” The FOX drama House sustained eight seasons of medical mysteries on this cynical insight alone. And the more righteous the liars were, the more satisfying (for Dr. House, and often for the viewer) were their falls. A classic episode pitted a rambunctious “faith healer” against the atheist misanthrope, but when the root of the young man’s illness is revealed to be the sexually-transmitted herpes virus, the doctor gets the last laugh. Law & Order: SVU is still chugging... Read more

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