Culture • Popular Culture An Inspector Calls: Agatha Christie Meets the Twilight Zone Heidi Wong | 9 min read One of the newest streaming services, Britbox, recently served up An Inspector Calls, the seminal work of English playwright, J.B. Priestley. Being fond of many BBC features, I decided to... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Pilgrims We Are: The Best Stories Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Pilgrims we are. The stories of my life are always a story of journey, of people on pilgrimage from here to there, from one place to the next. The most... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Seven Basic Plots and the One Basic Plot: Cosper, Booker, and The Stories We Tell Will Herron | 9 min read Being parents of young children, it was a rare occasion (even pre-pandemic!) when my wife and I were able to get out to dinner and a movie. Our last cinema... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Robin Wright’s “Land”: Two Essays Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” These words have been running through my mind the last weeks, thinking through ideas about metanarrative... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture In Praise of a Good Morality Tale: the Simple and the Complex in the Fiction of Elizabeth Goudge Becca Hermes | 11 min read Bibliotherapy. Never heard of it? Neither had I, at least by name, until browsing a lifestyle magazine a few months ago. Perhaps you are familiar with this term. For those... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Everything is Broken Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read A few weeks ago on an early morning drive I listened to Bob Dylan for two hours, the whole way there. Not what I always do, but that day I... Continue Reading
