For Judith
By Poetry Issue 107
Katherine Mooney Brooks on art, illness, and the failures of the body
Read MoreMotherhood: A Visual Contract
By Essay Issue 102
Leni Dothan examines and critiques how motherhood has been presented in western art history.
Read MoreAndy Goldsworthy’s Sticks & Stones
By Poetry Issue 102
You are alone naked in a forest, surrounded. Alone, surrounded by a live ossuary of trees, shed twig, spell of oval stone.
Read MoreBesides, Before, Beyond Beauty
By Editorial Statement Issue 102
I’m tired of beauty. Or rather, I’m tired of hearing the word “beauty” overused and misapplied.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Catherine Prescott
By Interview Issue 100
What has changed me since turning thirty is a result of my Christian conversion. What I wanted as a painter was always there, but when I met God, he told me, “You can paint anything you want.”
Read MoreArt and the Covenant
By Poetry Issue 95
i. Mid-morning Inside the rented van, a stone-gray moth head-butts the windshield, drops stunned in a looping catch, and rises to the same task, intent, not on light—there are other windows, some of them open—but this one light. Now it pauses in a midair hover, its hinged wings wide and minutely scripted in a flowing…
Read MoreFighting Fish
By Short Story Issue 90
FRED, THEIR BETTA FISH, IS DEAD. Christopher tips scummy water into the wilted tomato on the fire escape and gazes at the red body in his hand. He thinks about tossing Fred into the alley for the neighbor’s tabby before Damien wakes up from his nap, but decides against it. Ruth always strolls up the…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Mohammed Ali (a.k.a. Aerosol Arabic)
By Interview Issue 89
Issue 89 features the work of graffiti and installation artist Mohammed Ali, whose murals appear in cities all over the world, from his native Birmingham to Melbourne, Dubai, and Kuala Lumpur. He also performs collaboratively with musicians and poets. In the accompanying essay, George Dardess describes the way Ali sees his work as part of…
Read MoreScreening Mystery
By Essay Issue 20
FOR nearly a generation in Hollywood, a gulf has existed between the secular and religious perspectives. It is a rift that appeared in the sixties for many reasons, not least as an expression of a cultural rebellion which was arguably both liberating and destructive. But one result was the lamentable loss on screen of an…
Read MorePatron Saints
By Essay Issue 21
I ONCE heard a story about the late Walker Percy that seems to illustrate the plight of so many struggling artists down through the ages. Percy graduated from medical school in the 1940s but soon came down with tuberculosis and had to spend a couple years in a sanatorium. During that time he underwent a profound…
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