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Yesterday, at 1 p.m. EST, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” The post garnered over...

Y/N:A Novelby 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 world’s...

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,...

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...

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,...

Critics are hailing Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World as one of the best movies of the year. The dark romantic comedy-drama first premiered at the 2021...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last week, New Yorkers might have glimpsed this Fr. Richard John Neuhaus quote displayed on the LinkNYC kiosks scattered throughout the city: “New York is a world of many...

I understand the cause of your sickness. You have forgotten what you are.” So says Lady Philosophy to the grieving Boethius in The Consolation of Philosophy. What she said...

I graduated from Wyoming Catholic College in May. The college is nestled in the foothills of the Wind River Mountain Range, in the tiny town of Lander (with a population...