What impressed itself most on listeners in 1968, and continues to today, is the album’s utter authenticity, giving other artists permission to be truer to themselves
If Leonard Cohen failed to live at the center of righteousness, he maintained a sense of where that center remained, and of how to find it again in prayer
DC Talk's “Jesus Freak” articulated the way the evangelical church thought of itself: scorned by mainstream culture and the victim of violence rather than its agent.
Does pop music matter really? Is it “only rock and roll” or “all we have”? 'Love for Sale' misses out on a key opportunity to explore the deep questions.
Comedies with superficial characters aren’t necessarily bad, but ‘Café Society’ stays predictable. ‘Florence Foster Jenkins,’ however, makes room for pathos.
What fascinates Maraniss about Detroit more than its ruin is how central its story is to the broader course of U.S. history—Motown, the local Mob, the auto industry.
Claudia Rankine’s 'Citizen' and Jeffery Renard Allen’s 'Song of the Shank' both take up the issue of race in America in jagged and beautiful poetry and prose.
The via pulchritudinis is never far from me in my life as a Catholic, and it has been particularly with me lately as I’ve listened to Eventide by Voces8.
