The Politics of Consumption
Editor’s Note: Through a partnership with Calvin College’s Festival of Faith
and
Music [calvin.edu/go/ffm], The Curator is delighted to share thoughtful music
criticism from the 2015 Festival. Over
<i>The Leftovers</i> and Hebrew Wisdom Literature
Why do bad things happen? How do we deal with calamity? Why is life so
uncertain? How does one live in the face of unexpected loss? There are many ways
that human beings
Sustainability
(Laryx lyallis)
A few weeks after my mother died,
I dreamed that she was waiting for me
in a ravine of spring-green larches.
There was no worry in her eyes, and
she sat
<i>It Follows</i>: A Parable of Original Sin
There is a lot of space in David Robert Mitchell’s brilliant horror film, It
Follows [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/]—scenes of empty idleness set
between heart-pounding action sequences, interludes of
Bloodsucking Straights: <i>Inherent Vice</i> and the Undeath of Counterculture
The grotesque semi-collapse of the counterculture that had once sprung forth
from the American midcentury continues to preoccupy pundits, historians, and
artists, some four decades since its furious vibrations were reduced to mere