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July 2018

July 24, 2018

Taking Our Chances with Choice

Contingency…subject to chance…uncertain…right down to the molecular level. — Christian Wiman It is one of...

November 2017

November 07, 2017

Nostalgia for Stranger Things

In July 2016, I watched season one of Stranger Things with my younger brother. I...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

If you want to be submerged in the depths of Jewish spirituality, this is the...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Distorted Reality and FX’s Taboo

It’s been said that human beings warp everything that they touch as a consequence of...

February 2017

February 01, 2017

John Slater’s Lean

What is poetry, anyway? I found myself musing about this as I sat with John...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

ImageUpdate’s Top Ten of 2016

Every week, the Image staff curates a digital dispatch of compelling new books, music, artwork,...

December 20, 2016

Kathleen Wakefield’s Invisible Stenographer

You’ve got to meet this character. She’s a stenographer by trade: From the outset she...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Risen

In a well-written and well-acted scene from Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello’s recent film, Risen,...

May 2016

May 05, 2016

The Lone Ranger’s Easter Narrative

His back to us and to the camera, the hero walks silently away. His work...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 1

The following appears as the editorial statement in Image issue 88. There is no such...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul, a prequel to AMC’s milestone series, Breaking Bad, further establishes co-creators Vince Gilligan...

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 15, 2016

The Coen Brothers, Plato, and the Imagination

By Santiago Ramos Note: This review contains mild spoilers. Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Wilberforce: An Interview with H.S. Cross, Part 2

By Gregory Wolfe and H. S. Cross Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. GW: Religion and...

January 20, 2016

Wilberforce: An Interview with H.S. Cross, Part 1

By Gregory Wolfe and H. S. Cross In September 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Wilberforce,...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Hank Stuever’s 2005 collection of essays Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

Henry David Thoreau: Hopelessly Discontent

The following is an indirect response to Kathryn Schulz’s article “Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau’s...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Science and the Death of Philosophy

My boy is a bit of a science geek. He subscribes to Discover and Popular...

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,...

October 26, 2015

A Good Fight: Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night)

If a pair of writer/directors exists that can rival Joel and Ethan Coen for a...

August 2015

August 05, 2015

Kent Haruf and the Tie that Binds

By Rebecca A. Spears When you know people all your life you try to understand...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Eighth Day: Reclaiming a Neglected Novel

It must be a common occurrence—having certain inanimate things make periodic appearances throughout a life,...

July 09, 2015

Art on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 2

By Richard Cole Continued from yesterday. When Weinman completed her fellowship in Europe, she came...

July 08, 2015

Art on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 1

By: Richard Cole In a recent painting by Melissa Weinman, a small, white rose floats...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

The Art of the Authentic: Bill Baer’s Times Square

In 1973, Orson Welles made a documentary, F for Fake, in which he followed the...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

The Inner Life of Everyday Objects

On a morning when I was doing laundry, I was also reading Edward Dougherty's new...

February 11, 2015

Hazel Motes Is Out of Time

TCM broadcast John Huston’s film version of Wise Blood yesterday, and I wound up watching...

February 10, 2015

Living With Darwin

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Sublime and Beautiful

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, one of the great aesthetic dichotomies involved the sublime and...

January 28, 2015

The Crucifix’s Motley Crew

Archibald Motley’s most famous paintings jump and jive, then they wail. You might have seen...