Painted backgrounds and biblical references evoke solitude. The film's dreamlike mood and aesthetic highlight a kind of loneliness bordering on the spiritual. This anime about loneliness follows a ...

The "Birds of a Feather" singer is nominated seven times. Billie Eilish has made her much-anticipated, grand arrival to the 2025 Grammy Awards. And while fans will have to wait and see if she wins ...

And liturgy is more than aesthetics. The Tridentine liturgy is one cultural expression, largely for traditionalist Catholics. There are others, more sensitive to local cultures. But what I miss in ...

Heed the disclaimer while reading on, for hereby discussed is one such cultural specificity — the hikikomori phenomenon. I implore you to look beyond the implicit uniformity of pop culture.