Adam Joyce is a Duke Divinity graduate who lives and works in Chicago. Allergic to lists of hobbies and areas of ideological interest, he included none. You can follow him on Twitter @Adam_C_Joyce
[From the Archives:] I Know What You Read Last Summer
The story of this horse. People love horses. Roughly centered on horses.
[The following essay was originally published at the end of summer, back in 2014, but as you prepare to head to the beach in the next couple of months with a book at the ready to doze off to, under the sun, you may wish to heed Adam Joyce’s warning that reading is not a competition. […]
Small Gifts: A Sort of Review of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America
For a “little magazine” to dedicate its institutional life to the singular pursuit and support of the avant-garde seems off. Avoiding this myopic concentration on experimentation, The Curator lives with the centrifugal energy of a gift economy.
Written early in his duty at The Curator, this is a lasting note from Adam Joyce, our Editor-in Chief.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Renewing the Dialect of the Tribe
A conversation with Marilyn Chandler McEntyre on the responsibilities of writers, fidelity to communal conversations, and how we talk about death.
In Crimson Peak, del Toro’s fantastical aesthetics are on full display, especially if one listens closely.
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Jennifer Phang’s dystopian sci-fi vision is as concerned about us as it is about the future.
One pretentious, mansplaining, literary tweet at a time, “Guy In Your MFA” has become an internet phenomenon. Adam Joyce caught up with Dana Schwartz, the creator of the hilarious Twitter parody account, which to date has garnered over 50,000 followers.
On Scott Tobias’ entry at Dissolve
The Discovery Itself Calls forth Further Quests
Adam Joyce, our Editor-in-Chief, answers the question: what is criticism?
Noteworthy: Is Art Up to the Task?
A little internet fodder for tonight’s dinner table chat ‘n chew.
I Know What You Read this Summer
Reader, rescue yourself—don’t click on the lists.
“Whatever is said, the past remains”
The faith and art conversation doesn’t need another Kinkade–bash. Instead, turn from the Painter of Light to the Director of Blood, Quentin Tarantino.
A Review of "Unapologetic: Why Christianity Makes Surprising Emotional Sense"
Think of “Unapologetic” as a virtual reality tour of the pathways of a heart, a guided exploration of his emotive geography—like explaining Christianity by starting with the Psalms.
“Art has saved people, just not me.”
The road to truth is paved with balderdash.
The Devil has All the Best Films
Good horror doesn’t necessarily make us more socially aware; it makes us afraid and gives us nightmares. A horror film succeeds when our pupils dilate, our hearts quicken, we run home quicker, and the monsters meet us when we close our eyes. Horror makes reality strange, a little terrifying—unearthing buried primal fears, the anxiety about the gap between how we perceive life, and life itself.
The Physics of Worship, w/r/t DFW
The search for mental and emotional health in the modern world may ring Pelagian, but this is not altogether inappropriate. DFW’s writing can save us from the everyday idolatry of the default setting, the cultural autopilot of excess and addiction precisely because his fiction is a gym for the moral imagination.
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