Author Archives: Eve Tushnet

About Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet is a writer in Washington, DC. She blogs at Patheos and has written for Commonweal, USA Today, and the Weekly Standard, among other publications. She is working on a book on vocation for gay Catholics. Her email is eve_tushnet@yahoo.com and she can be found on Twitter at @evetushnet.

‘What Maisie Knew’: The Sheep from the Goats

There may not be many movies with happy endings more heartless than …

No Place to Stand: “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”

TRAILER – The Reluctant Fundamentalist from PartyLiciouS Entertainment on Vimeo. Both the …

Beyond Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has so thoroughly colonized our idea of education that we …

Lost in the Cosmos, On a Bike: “4000 Miles”

“4000 Miles,” playing at the Studio Theatre in DC through May 5, …

Sister Outsider: ‘Beyond the Hills’

The movie’s portrayal of faith and love goes beyond the usual secular-versus-religious nostrums.

‘The Advertising Comrade’

In “No,” the new satire about the ad campaigns waged by both …

Sparrows and Fathers

Spurred by Rod’s post on fatherhood in “Portlandia”, I’ve been thinking about …

The Armies of the Prince of Peace: “The Convert” at Woolly Mammoth

“Love of one is a barbarism; for it is exercised at the …

“I Think My Liver Hurts”: Re-reading Dostoyevsky Sober

Last year I quit drinking, and read a ton of Dostoyevsky. Sadly, …

‘Amour’: The Family Plot

As we handed over our tickets to see Michael Haneke’s Oscar-nominated “Amour,” …

Engagement Inflation

Marriage proposals are getting bigger and flashier.

A New Story, in the Field of Abortion-Haunted Horror Films

In 2008 I wrote “Grotesquerie and Grief: Abortion in Horror Media,” which …

A Quick Gulp of Yale’s Enormous New Art Gallery

This is just a note to say that I checked out the …

‘Time of the Wolf’

The Time of the Wolf from Alistair Lax on Vimeo. I recently …

Reference of Frame

The challenge of identity in portraiture

The Middle of Sexual Identity

A little while ago I mentioned that I finished Jenell Williams Paris’s …

Hedonist, Disciple or Bourgeois?

I recently finished Jenell Williams Paris’s book The End of Sexual Identity. …

Margaret Atwood Gets Her Dystopia

Probably not where she expected it. The feminist author retweeted a post …

‘Deadline – USA’

Every year the AFI theater in Silver Spring puts on a “DC …

The Mountain Goats: Disco Purgatorio

Since we’re talking about Christ-haunted indie musicĀ … first, you guys should listen …

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