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 [email protected] and she can be found on Twitter at @evetushnet.
The Cartoon That Hits Home in Our #MeToo Era
BoJack Horseman tackles sin and forgiveness in a way that few other shows do.
Finding the Literary Truths in Alcoholism and Recovery
New memoir tackles personal addiction and familiar tropes about creativity under the influence.
Open relationships are torture
‘The Commune’ is a Punishing Movie
The Long Years After Failure
After the Storm is a slow movie about a hard passage in middle-aged life.
Grandfather Had Fangs
Snakish is a novel about decline and fall, the passing of a way of life.
Spirits, What Have You to Say?
A movie about a haunted Ouija board has surprising depth—until it falls apart.
Order, Chaos, Peace
Brent Bozell, an architect of the conservative movement, ended up trusting an order no man could impose.
Escape From Detroit
Don’t Breathe is an effective horror flick whose least-effective elements hide its real insights.
The Right to Look Your Judge in the Eye
Equality is found in the brute fact that we are individual, embodied human beings.
There’s No Cure for Vice
Today’s newest antiheroes don’t pretend to be anything other than what they are: terrible people.
Humiliation and Reconciliation
What medieval penance can tell us about making modern-day amends.
City of Good Intentions
The nation’s capital is divided into dateline Washington and hometown DC.
The Holey Family
In the film Little Sister, everybody is damaged and betrayed—but they are genuinely forgiven.
Tower Block Dystopia
In High-Rise, the initial glamour of 1970s modernism descends into decadence and violence.
Famous Monsters of Filmland
Tim Powers weaponizes nostalgia in a novel haunted by the past.
Poor Citizenship
A coming-of-age film highlights how even in communist Cuba, faith sustains the underclass.
Love and Death in the Multiverse
Constellations is a moving exploration of the human drive for control.
Out in the Fields with God
“The Witch” is a powerful brew of family tragedy, religious drama, and horror show.
Stephen King’s Doubt
The novel ‘Revival’ mixes Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft to depict an untrusting America.
Exterminatrix
Revisiting Sarah Schulman’s satire-tragedy of 1990s New York City
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