Alissa Wilkinson

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May 2016

May 10, 2016

Thin Places, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. In the rocky cave-like interior at Newgrange, the...

May 09, 2016

Thin Places, Part 1

A few summers ago, my husband Tom and I were in Dublin for a week,...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

A Space Program

The tenth item on a list entitled “How to Watch This Film,” which accompanies Tom Sachs' A...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Fiat Lux: Cathedral of the Pines

This summer in Paris, on the morning before we flew home, I took my husband...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

The Glory of the World

By Alissa Wilkinson The Glory of the World—now running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music—is...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

Precious Things Come from Staying

Joan Didion’s family, she says, are a tribe of leavers. In her 2004 book Where...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Talk to Me in Letters

Dearest Cal: Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

The Affair and the End of It

The second season of Showtime’s The Affair premiered at the beginning of October. In the show, Noah,...

September 2015

September 01, 2015

In Praise of the Amateur

In his book Culture Making, Andy Crouch notes that the only way to change culture is...