Kathryn Watson is a freelance writer and editor with recent bylines in Christianity Today, Curbed, Plough, Breaking Ground, and The Curator. Armed with a degree in creative writing and half an art history minor, Kathryn's work covers everything from Elaine de Kooning's Bible studies to the moral philosophy of nonprofit data collection. She is particularly interested in the way that artifacts shape working-class communities, and the other way around. She lives with her husband and two young children in the Hudson Valley, and you'll probably end up calling her Kate.
A review of Jia Tolentino's remarkable Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino’s debut essay collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, is popular. The book hit #2 on the NYT Bestseller list the week it became eligible for that list’s measurement, and Tolentino is currently on a months-long, international book tour in an age where no writer—let alone an essayist, let alone a critic—gets a book […]
I was trapped between my ideological opposition to what the election said about the church, and my deep and unbending longing to be close to people who loved God.
When I walk into the floor-level seating section of the Wellmont Theatre, the first thing that hits me is the sound. It rises like a wave that crests, crescendos, and recedes, beckoning me toward the front rows with a twinkling, slow keyboard and a hypnotizing guitar melody. The surge of music, accompanied by earnest voices […]
Chance the Rapper & the Joyful Noise of Desecration
Anger points to anarchy. Satire stares back at us in the mirror. But hope points us toward each other.
Radiohead in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
If there is one protest that runs through the Radiohead canon, it is a continual dismay at the state of modern unreality. Moon Shaped Pool asks us to look, one last time, and see ourselves before we go.
Previous page Next page