Yearly Archives 2012

Plancks Mechanical Gut:

How the Work of Visual Artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy Can Get Even a Quantum Physicist Juiced about Art.

Quanta, and theories, and quarks; Oh My!

These words might be the emphatic exclamations of an excited quantum physicist; they are not, however, the first words that one would necessarily use to describe the beauty of Linnéa Spransy’s work.

Genrephobia

Last year, some friends and I assembled a book club, which, unlike many book clubs, actually does spend a good deal of time talking about the books. We also drink wine and gossip, of course, but not until after the discussion. Also unlike a number of book clubs, ours is coed and ostensibly open to all genres.

Wilmington, North Carolina

Here’s the physiology of it: through the magic water and placenta, through the uterus and skin and my wife’s thin cotton shirt, I could feel my son’s hiccups against the small of my back. My firstborn, unborn, aquatic little boy. Every three seconds.
Suddenly we were a southern family,

Review of Doug Frank’s A Gentler God

Like most people, my understanding of God’s image and character has been transformed over time: in my case, from the bearded old white man of Sunday school lore, giving judgment from atop fluffy clouds, to a much more inclusive—and, to be honest, more ambiguous—deity,

Works with Soul: Dave Harrity