woman is the irony of the community
March 2018
March 21, 2018
at First Things: I Am Not a Witch, the brilliant feature debut of Zambian-Welsh writer...
January 2018
January 30, 2018
[Paul] was concerned to emphasize, rather [than fornication], the continuing validity of all social bonds....
January 09, 2018
at First Things. And I did an extended twitter thread of notes, outtakes, and skating...
November 2017
November 07, 2017
So I commemorated the Fifth of November by attending a reading of Equivocation, Jesuit priest...
July 2017
July 24, 2017
at First Things: A few years ago, the website You Had One Job posted a...
July 05, 2017
So Netflix made a show about women's wrestling in the 1980s and I am hard-pressed...
June 2017
June 30, 2017
Last week I headed to sunny South Bend, IN for "Trying to Say 'God': Re-enchanting...
June 01, 2017
So you don't have to! No, this trashy novel by M.L. Rio, set at an...
March 2017
March 21, 2017
It is the last dream of children: to be forever untouched. --Audre Lorde, Zami: A...
February 2017
February 03, 2017
A little of everything here. Left Bank: Artsy Belgian psychological suspense flick about an injured...
December 2016
December 19, 2016
for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...
September 2016
September 30, 2016
In one of the three post-concussion Gay Catholic Whatnot interviews I've done so far, my...
September 12, 2016
Daisies: A mid-'60s Czech feminist romp, and incredibly enjoyable from the first frame to the...
August 2016
August 23, 2016
I just read and loved this stiletto book, which I finally picked up after reading...
August 03, 2016
A while ago I wrote this ironically-distanced post about how one might defend the all-male...
July 2016
July 15, 2016
review at First Things: Anna Rose Holmer's extraordinary new film The Fits begins with a...
May 2016
May 27, 2016
Going into this book I knew basically nothing about the beguines--not even how you pronounce...
May 23, 2016
The two biggest things I left out here (mostly due to space constraints): Fallada always...
April 2016
April 01, 2016
...to talk about the Mountain Goats. Once more I did my annual Mountain Goats Holy...
February 2016
February 13, 2016
Despite the title, spooky cover, and synopsis (ARE OUR TEENS IN A WITCH SEX CULT?...
January 2016
January 21, 2016
every Halloween is self-parody Halloween: Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015...
January 15, 2016
for AmCon: I spent last weekend at the Gay Christian Network Conference in Houston, and...
January 14, 2016
lays it down: I’ve been having lots of weird, really vibrant dreams (I usually don’t...
September 2015
September 06, 2015
The Leopard: Burt Lancaster is the patriarch of an aristocratic Sicilian family whose role in...
August 2015
August 29, 2015
with tons of fascinating stuff: In the twelfth century, single women began moving in large...
July 2015
July 30, 2015
alerts us: ...Like Paglia, Castle’s entrée into the literary tradition of sexual inversion was a...
July 15, 2015
for AmCon: It’s impossible to describe Amy Winehouse’s voice. Crackly, crimson, fractured and sultry: That’s...
July 14, 2015
What I've been watching. Mr Skeffington: Two and a half hours of epic Bette Davis....
July 08, 2015
Just really important for people who care about this stuff. Also adds some complexity to...
June 2015
June 27, 2015
Yesterday afternoon I watched Inside Out. You'll get more from me about that later, but...
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