A World Still Stirred
While prints made from woodcuts and engravings may not offer the immediate thrill of gigantic oil paintings, they do display curious combinations of grotesquerie and
While prints made from woodcuts and engravings may not offer the immediate thrill of gigantic oil paintings, they do display curious combinations of grotesquerie and
Meanwhile, Harvard holds their commencement exercises outdoors, rain or shine. This year, there was no shine. So 32,000 damp people negotiated regalia, umbrellas, and uncomfortable
There’s something irresistible and mesmerizing about Coates’s voice. I found Between the World and Me deeply compelling, partly because of Coates’s muscular, precise prose. He’s
We often do not know how to give grief and lament the space and time they require. However, painting, sculpture, music, dance and other forms
While Bérubé is concerned with questions of broad public good and the use of public funds in higher education, the Christian community, I would contend,
An art gallery downtown. Makoto Fujimura reads from The Four Quartets, testifies to what T.S. Eliot has meant to him. Tells of reading the poem
My colleague Jennifer Holberg got a head start on me last November by recommending some authors who will be featured at the Calvin Festival of
Despite the continued deep freeze here in Michigan, I spy a glow of hope on the horizon: something wonderful is coming!
I don’t mean spring.
Back at work, my job this month is to help new faculty members at Calvin College learn about Calvin’s history and mission, figuring out what
I report to you late on Friday night after two exhilarating days at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College. I’m exhausted and