Culture • Popular Culture Loving Lucy Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read I love Lucy! Except he didn’t— and that is the great grief at the heart of the new film, “Being the Ricardos.” Having grown up with Lucille Ball and... Continue Reading
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
