Culture

Essays on art, literature, film, music, symbols, and the cultural memory carried by creative work.

A review of Gints Zilbalodis's animated film Flow, where quiet images become a meditation on survival, empathy, and community.

A symbolic essay on the phoenix as a mythic image of rebirth, initiation, and spiritual transformation.

A light humor page of short jokes and comic observations for a quick magazine break.

An art feature on Thomas Cole's four-part Voyage of Life series and the American landscape tradition.

Peter Shmakov's story of Father Vlad, dreams, faith, doubt, and the strange human search for meaning.