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The Fanfic Temptation
Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi Astra, 224 pages, $26 A few months ago, an old school friend confessed that she’d been reading a lot of “AO3”—Archive of Our Own,...
The Myth of Empress Elisabeth
Elisabeth, empress of Austria and queen of Hungary (1837–1898), has been the muse of many a filmmaker. Ernst Marischka’s film Sissi, starring Romy Schneider, captivated German-speaking audiences in 1955,...
Why I Went to a Catholic College
I was seventeen when my father and I embarked on the long flight to Denver from Amsterdam, with a layover in London. He read George Eliot; I read Batman: The...
The Art of Grief
Corsicana is the latest play from Will Arbery, whose 2019 Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about many things—death, love, art,...
The Plight of the Millennial Woman
The following contains spoilers for The Worst Person in the World. Critics are hailing Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World as one of the best movies of...
Facing the Real
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I came to appreciate even more the outdoor education I received at Wyoming Catholic College. Under lockdown, I remembered fondly the freedom of hiking with...
Keep Watch
This has been a difficult year for many. Trying times lie ahead, and many of us, confined within the same four walls for many months, have experienced firsthand the...
Taking the Long Road
My liberal arts education at Wyoming Catholic College taught me the importance of first and last principles. Thanks to the school’s Great Books curriculum and wilderness training, I learned...
Emma Unframed
Some say that Emma is the least likeable of Jane Austen’s heroines. Austen herself admitted as much, calling the meddling matchmaker “a heroine whom no one but myself will...
Justify the Ways of Eve
Tom Dulack’s new stage adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost begins with an arresting projection of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam. As you enter the theater, the image dominates the...
New York Remembers Fr. Neuhaus
Last week, New Yorkers might have glimpsed this Fr. Richard John Neuhaus quote displayed on the LinkNYC kiosks scattered throughout the city: n “New York is a world of...