“I Am My Father’s Son”: Stephen Wilson, Jr., Wendell Berry, and the Myth of Self-Creation
Wilson’s songs trace the long, difficult movement where inheritance becomes not just a burden but a belonging.
The Scandal of Reading 36 | Winn Collier on Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow
Winn Collier joins Austin to discuss the work of American novelist Wendell Berry: Jayber Crow set in the fictional town of Port William
The Creature Rhythms of Hulu’s The Bear
The Bear poses the question: Does structure itself cause fractures? Or does it only do so when divorced from love?
Smartphones, Guns, and Black Mirror: The Shaping of Our Technology
Like Daly in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” guns and technology allow us to imagine a world in which we call the shots.
Wendell Berry Loves Your Nowhere Place
The Seer, a new film about Wendell Berry, is a celebration of the people who once upon a time we called “salt of the earth” but who we remember now as “backward” caricatures.
Fulfillment Lessons Learned from a Doctor-to-Be
“How can I serve these people? How can I serve this place?” This is the path toward fulfillment.
‘Parks and Recreation’: No Mid-Level Bureaucrat Is an Island
Few shows have given us a chance to see what happens after what we might label a perfect ending. In moving and managing the show forward three years for its last season, Parks and Recreation shows it understands how time necessarily reveals our inherent need to create meaningful relationships.
In Praise of Obnoxious Family Members (and Other Hard-to-Love People)
Vulnerability requires proximity, but we live in an age when we have the power to minimize our proximity to the vulnerable more than ever before.
