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at First Things: Moving to the other side of the world did not diminish the...

I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems...

You will know if you want to read Catherynne Valente's new novel, Space Opera, as...

In which St Francis de Sales watches season 5 of the depressed-horse show and exclaims,...

for America magazine: If I had to sell you “Sorry to Bother You,” the corporate...

for AmCon: When Leslie Jamison realized she had to quit drinking, she was also giving...

This is a documentary about Anthony Weiner's 2013 campaign for mayor of New York City....

I stayed up 'til 1:30 this morning to finish Gabriel Blanchard's Victorian vampire novel, Death's...

via a married friend who says almost all of this resonates! ...ADB: And so we...

at Jezebel: I don’t remember exactly how I played myself into wearing a tail for...

In chronological order of when I saw them. The cathedrals are toward the end. Vic...

as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three...

every Halloween is self-parody Halloween: Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015...

I have finally finished my epic rewatch of "Star Trek: The Original Series." (Previous posts...

For example, let's take a piece of stone destined to be carved into a crucifix...

So a couple weeks ago I watched this video and it's an interesting intro to...

is very generous: Now Tushnet has published her first novel, Amends, which is about a...

So I was invited to a conference run by Courage, a Catholic ministry to people...

a super-neat piece that connects my new novel to some themes in my nonfiction writing:...

You can purchase it (or the paperback, if you prefer books for mammals): A month...

now! A month in rehab would be stressful enough without a television audience. When the...

The tweets are here (and as always it's a great mix of violence, systematic racism,...

Just a quick note to say that I finished this collection of short stories, translated...

Or, a quick fix of slick flicks. Devil's Pass: Found-footage Dyatlov Pass Incident investigation. Some...

old post well worth revisiting: This initiation of the miracle by Mary is not just...

From the department of Those Who Can't Do and/or Fools Rush In, so as always,...

HI STERCORIUS. I was in Russian class, trying to describe a character from a movie...

at Substance.com: I could fill volumes with all that I saw. There were other situations...

So I took part in this year-end books roundup with AmCon, and once again told...

at AmCon: The most tense scene I saw in any movie this year was Marion...