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October 2018

October 12, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Lord, Sky”

The compelling narrative of “Lord, Sky,” set during the time of an election, is also...

October 10, 2018

Humans Love Heroes

In the video James Corden approaches a podium wearing a dark grey suit and a...

August 2018

August 06, 2018

Can a Racist Drive a Prius? Stereotypes and the Single Story

I think it's good for me when my stereotypes of others are challenged. Like this...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Party in the USA

The day is hot and musty but everyone is celebrating. After all, everyone can enjoy...

July 09, 2018

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Our son Eric was four years old. My husband George, after teaching all day at...

July 02, 2018

Living in a Border State

I spent elementary school in a Mexican neighborhood in Austin, Texas. I attended birthday parties...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

The Arm, the Girl, and the Guard

In a long room with three doorways in Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art, somewhere...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

I Am Not Your Negro

Near the beginning of Raoul Peck’s documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin says...

September 11, 2017

Remembering 9/11 in Washington D.C.

Sixteen years later, 9/11 seems so distant that it is merely a touchstone for rhetoric....

September 07, 2017

Still on the Line

I will not claim credit for many things, but one virtue I own is that...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

An American Body Politic

A show about Russian spies living in D.C. during the Cold War easily brings to...

August 10, 2017

Guns N’ Roses in This Lifetime

The first time I encountered Guns N’ Roses, it was a flag hanging on the...

July 2017

July 12, 2017

Your Attention, Please

Dear Friends: I received two emails recently from writers you likely know and admire. Like...

July 11, 2017

The Case For Charlie Gard

Charlie Gard, the English child you see here, will likely die—indeed, by the time this...

July 10, 2017

Rectifying 2017

During its four seasons from 2013 to 2016, Rectify was no stranger to critical praise....

June 2017

June 15, 2017

A Prayer for Kendrick Lamar

It occurs to me each time I listen to Kendrick Lamar’s new album, Damn: The award winning...

June 14, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 7

Today philosopher Santiago Ramos steps in with the last word (we think) of “The Beauty Dialogues,” a...

June 09, 2017

Sufjan Stevens’ Planetarium in Paradise

By Adam Tyler Horn When Dante finally sees Beatrice near the end of the Purgatorio, he...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 5

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image founder...

May 22, 2017

Inventing the Kingdom, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 92. When The Kingdom landed on...

May 18, 2017

Trump and the Borgias: The Stuff of Great TV

It’s hard to imagine that anyone would look back on this period of American history...

May 15, 2017

The Madding Crowd

Why is it that we so often gain courage or cowardice to do bad from...

April 2017

April 04, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 3

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges with Image founder Gregory Wolfe. Dear Greg, Thanks...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Heisenberg and the A-Bomb: Just Say No

I read through the article breathlessly, astonished at the moral implications of what I was...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Now is the Time to Read The Man in the High Castle

Imagine an alternate history in which a regime arose in the United States that believed...

January 18, 2017

Image’s 16 Most-Read of 2016

As I was looking over Image’s website analytics at the end of 2016, I confess...

January 04, 2017

A Song of Songs for These American Days

With thanks and apologies to the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Emily Dickinson, Neil Young, Wallace Stevens,...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

Why Annie Dillard Supports Image

Dear readers, When Image was founded in 1989, we turned to a few literary exemplars...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Listening to Beautiful Darkness

Waking from the Nightmare A little girl awakens in an autumn wood. She stands, looks...

November 16, 2016

What We Talk About When We Talk About Beauty

I have beauty on the mind. No doubt a result of my ongoing debate with...