Larry Wolff From A Duel to A Duet In Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking, newly staged at the Metropolitan Opera, a conflicted nun ministers to an inmate on death row. October 7, 2023
FT Incomparable In recent years Sinéad O’Connor wrested her story back from a sneering media. But “if anyone truly wants to know me,” she wrote, “the best way is through my songs.” August 5, 2023
Garry Wills ‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’ In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the great founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. January 26, 2022
Marina Warner Season of Epiphany “I’m much happier with stories that don’t ask me to consent to their principles or believe in their heroes.” December 18, 2021
Fintan O’Toole Theater, Politics, and Critic “The way the personal and the political overlap in certain public lives can be illuminating for both arenas.” May 22, 2021
Sady Doyle A Kind of Forgiveness I grew up in the Catholic Church, where “forgiveness” was constantly advocated, despite the fact that God did not do much of it Himself. But if God did not forgive, women had to. December 31, 2018