Briana Jansky says the new Lee Daniels flick integrates the African-American experience with a positive view of Christianity that's all too rare.

In The Crisis of Narration, Byung-chul Han suggests the real harm of information is that it has displaced a more essential practice of human life: narration.

Naming and seeing. Seeing and naming. It's hard to say which comes first, but once you get the hang of it, you walk through that doorway of gratitude straight into joy enough times that it becomes the ...

Ryan Carroll is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches writing and researches theories of ...