Culture Watch

The quiet outrage of James Nachtwey's photography.

The Editors 2-01-2004

Four February 2004 culture recommendations from our editors

Duane Shank 1-01-2004
The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson.
1-01-2004
Soul Journey, by Gillian Welch.
Kimberly Burge 1-01-2004

One last time, the Man in Black brings his music, and love, to the Carter Family Fold.

The Editors 1-01-2004

Sing for Justice

The beer-commercial sensibility of deliberate, cultivated empty-headedness is pervasive.

Richard Shindell sings a good story.
Molly Marsh 11-01-2003

Singing Septuaginarians

Robin Fillmore 11-01-2003

When Richard Danielpour composed An American Requiem in September 2000, he had no idea it would be presented to a nation experiencing a battlefront on its own soil.

Diana Butler Bass 11-01-2003

Even if Christendom is only a vague European memory, the United States suffers from a sort of Constantinian hangover. The Emperor Constantine just won't go away.

David Fillingim 11-01-2003

Miles and miles of two-lane blacktop crisscross the rural South, forming a web of connections among myriad small towns with declining populations and evaporating economic base

Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2003

Today rock dozes comfortably in the belly of the beast.

Amy Sullivan 11-01-2003

On the first weekend of every September, before cold winds off the Great Lakes turn the air chilly, the Plymouth Fall Festival takes place along Main Street in my hometown of Plymouth, Michigan.

Julie Polter 11-01-2003

Flannery O'Connor was a master short-story writer, dark humorist, and astute cultural observer.

James Tramel 11-01-2003

"When Prisoners Come Home" by Joan Petersilia

Kimberly Burge 9-01-2003

"A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the light of a story.

Denise Giardina 9-01-2003

"We should not harm anyone.

Kathryn Harrison 9-01-2003

When Thérèse Martin died in 1897 at age 24, she was a nobody; most of the world had never heard of her.

Gareth Higgins 9-01-2003

Gareth Higgins, author of the new book How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books) writes about...