Culture Watch

Nathan Johnston 7-01-2003

Gathered from various concert performances over the past decade, Don't Talk About Love—a 16-track album that spans a decade of Martyn Joseph's work—plays like

Molly Marsh 7-01-2003

Words Made Flesh

Kimberly Burge 7-01-2003

Bob Dylan's songs are born again.

There's been a resurgence of entertaining protest - or, at least, protesting entertainers.

Quique Aviles 7-01-2003

At the Sojourners National Roundtable on Faith, Art, and Social Activism, Quique Avilés spoke about the role of the artist in bringing about a more just society.

Andrea Jeyaveeran 7-01-2003

You start to get an idea of how Wally Lamb, the editor of Couldn't Keep It to Myself, feels about the authors in his anthology of incarcerated female writers...

Julie Polter 5-01-2003
The movement needs a good mix tape.
Wendy Doniger 5-01-2003

The ability to laugh, we know, is vital. To do so in the midst of terror and anxiety is even more important.

Molly Marsh 5-01-2003

What to Bring?

Shawnda Hines Eibl 5-01-2003

Be careful when you opt to wander off the beaten path; what you come across might change your direction altogether.

The Mekons: Part of the chain of holy warriors.

Molly Marsh 5-01-2003

Nine polite, well-dressed men and women walked into the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board office May 17, 1968, tussled briefly with staff members there...

Richard Deats 5-01-2003

Jonathan Schell, author of such highly acclaimed books as The Fate of the Earth and The Gift of Time, has now written perhaps his most important work

Rose Marie Berger 5-01-2003

On Feb. 9, 2003, Orion magazine took out a full-page advertisement on page five of The New York Times.

It's hard to imagine a noteworthy book about the civil rights movement that doesn't include the powerful ingredients of religion and faith. 

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2003

Yesterday I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken with in more than a year. "I have to tell someone this," she said.

Molly Marsh 3-01-2003

Divine Music

Mark L. Taylor 3-01-2003

"We believe in heaven and that Tim is with God," says a Catholic woman who lost her husband in the 9-11 attacks.

Joan Chittister 3-01-2003

Struggle is a universal part of human experience, but hope—though hard to see in disappointing circumstances—is the other side of that coin.

Duane Shank 3-01-2003

The genius of American jazz is using an unexpected note or chord to add an element of surprise when the music goes where you least expect.