Vermeer Fever
By Visual Art Issue 118
It was always Vermeer’s instinct to return us to our truest selves, but to do so he had to learn how to make his figures vulnerable.
Read MoreCalled to Action: Spirituality and Activism in the Work of Caron Tabb
By Visual Art Issue 118
She seeks out materials rife with metaphor—Jewish ritual objects, found objects, repurposed garments—then transforms them with paint, cement, fire, and text, with the goal of sparking dialogue, increasing empathy, and engaging in difficult conversations.
Read MoreEsau Speaks against His Brother’s Word
By Poetry Issue 118
And I am what but a hair machine / He loved but could not recognize
Read MoreBar Mitzvah
By Poetry Issue 118
I am my parents’ first book.
Read MoreDream of a New Rhythm: A Conversation with Miho Nonaka
By Interview Issue 118
It almost takes a supernatural power to insist on existing, belonging, and mattering as an embodied presence when you are an outsider.
Read MoreMemento Mori
By Poetry Issue 118
let pass another word / of love impossible submerged.
Read MoreThe Stray
By Issue 118
Sunflowers like skinny men with rubberneck looks.
Read MoreThe Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Fiction Issue 118
While all this was going on, the Christ above the altar began to come alive.
Read MoreImage Issue 1: A Conversation with Frederick Buechner
By Interview Issue 1
For Image’s inaugural issue, editor Harold Ficket interviewed the Presbyterian minister, novelist, and memoirist Frederick Buechner (1926-2022), covering a range of topics of interest: inspiration for his novels, the ambiguity inherent to experiences of the divine, and the faith-informed vision necessary for seeing miracles. “God moves in these elusive, mysterious, ambiguous ways through our lives,”…
Read MoreThe Jewish Longing for Wilderness Reveals Itself
By Poetry Issue 118
Two figures, one of them kneeling, / have mastered the washing machine.
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