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Holmes, Help My Unbelief

There on my bookcase was a row of nine matching hardbacks. On their spines, a...

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April 27, 2017

Brunelleschi’s Balancing Act

The story goes that one day Filippo Brunelleschi, the goldsmith who would go on to...

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March 28, 2017

Mysteries Sherlock Holmes Can’t Solve

“No, you should definitely major in English,” I told our babysitter, a high-school senior from...

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February 13, 2017

Visiting Martin Luther in Minneapolis

A few weeks ago, I visited the Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation exhibit at...

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Poetry Friday: “Erasure”

Have you ever felt that your own existence is being called into question? That you...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea

It’s impossible to speak of Kenneth Lonergan’s film Manchester by the Sea without alluding to...

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June 02, 2016

The World Beyond the Room

The most obvious analysis of Emma Donoghue’s Room, one of last year’s most heralded films,...

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May 31, 2016

Richard Wilbur’s Poetry Captures Our Days

Last night I read a poem that showed me in a flash why I save...

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What We Wish For, What We Think Is True, Part 2

Guest Post By Isaac Anderson Continued from yesterday. After we've gone our separate ways to...

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