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Film
Film Review: Midwives
Despite the title, Burmese director Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s riveting documentary isn’t really about childbirth. Except, perhaps, for its opening scene, which shows us intimate footag…
Books
Book Review: Secrets From a Herbalist’s Garden
From the title, you might think Secrets From a Herbalist’s Garden is about gardening. From the subtitle, “A Magical Year of Plant Remedies,” you might think the book is about medic…
Books
Book Review: Dream Guidance
Cultivating a practice of not just recalling but recording and understanding dreams is at the heart of dream incubation. With Machiel Klerk’s cheerful Dream Guidance, readers learn…
Books
Book Review: Ritual as Remedy
What does it feel like to be a body on this earth, a mind processing this life, and a spiritual being stuck somewhere in the disorienting middle? Ritual as Remedy prods us to refle…
Books
Book Review: Judaism Without Tribalism
With precision derived from decades of immersive experience and devoted thought, Rabbi Rami Shapiro investigates the diverse branches of Judaism to reveal a creative path that is o…
Film
Film Review: The Velvet Queen
THE SNOW LEOPARD is one of the most elusive creatures on the face of the earth, so naturally a documentary about attempts to photograph one in the wild will, by necessity, wind up …
Film
Film Review: Salt in My Soul
ASSEMBLED FROM home movies, recordings, and diaries kept by the late Mallory Smith, Salt in My Soul charts the journey of one woman who spent her life dealing with the devastating …
Music
Music Review: Age of Apathy
AGE OF APATHY is the first studio album in six years from Irish-American singer Aoife O’Donovan. The Grammy award-winner offers here a contemporary blend of folk, roots, and countr…
Music
Music Review: Music for Psychedelic Therapy
THERE’S A CURIOUS resonance between the names of America’s Johns Hopkins and Britain’s Jon Hopkins. The former is a university that has long been a nexus for research on psychedeli…
Music
Music Review: Radio Waves
Joan Osborne’s new album, Radio Waves, is a great idea that wouldn’t have happened without the pandemic. It’s a collection of rediscovered recordings from live performances at radi…
