‘Midwood’ is both intimate and distanced. It offers us access to dreams and erotic experience; it keeps us at a remove through irony and syntactical oddity.
Traditionalism can seem trendy and countercultural, but it is the constancy, not the theatricality, of the Church that offers meaning in a secular world.
“When Sonny died, I hadn’t stepped foot in a church in twenty years. Not to get married, not while I was going through chemo, not when my husband left me.”
Jamel Shabazz photographs a collective portrait of New York, documenting the varying degrees of humility that life in the city forces most of us to adopt.
Steve Bannon has tried to cast both Trump’s victory and defeat as providential, the first battles in an ongoing war. Let’s hope providence has other plans.