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The Way of the Critic: To Judge Is to Love

By James K. A. Smith Editorial

Good criticism also helps us see why some art doesn’t work, or works poorly, activating the worst in us. When criticism is judgmental in the sense of being censorious, that too is in the service of art and our experience. The critic is showing us why we need and deserve better.

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Camellias

By Joshua Garcia Poetry

My mother used to tell me to talk without using my hands…. People will think you’re something you’re not, she said.

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August

By Nathaniel Perry Poetry

May the curious prayer of work keep me / in contact with the stone / / and who knows what else.

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