John Waters

Abortion and gay marriage have entered Northern Ireland by the back door. Continue Reading »

Michel Houellebecq books are documents of an internal forensics of human decline that happen to take the form of stories. Continue Reading »

In the world run by social credit, an individual’s score becomes the ultimate truth of his existence. Continue Reading »

The Twitter bubble renders society deaf, closing the collective conversation off to alternative perspectives. Continue Reading »

The movie Yesterday imagines a world without The Beatles.  Continue Reading »

The old-style newspaper used to behave honorably; now, it has become a branch of the entertainment industry.  Continue Reading »

The pattern of mass shootings may be a symptom of a suicidal culture.  Continue Reading »

“National populism-lite” is unfolding in Britain. Continue Reading »

The prospect of mortality shakes even the firmest faith. Continue Reading »

My Father Left Me Ireland:  An American Son’s Search For Home by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 223 pages, $24 Irish artists face a problem unknown to artists in, let us say, uninterrupted nations. It is possible for things, places, people to be “too Irish”—the gist of a note I . . . . Continue Reading »