Articles — The Revealer

Review

Billie Holiday, ‘Strange Fruit,’ and the Resilient Myth of Martyrdom

June 3, 2021Tracy Fessenden

A review of the film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and its portrayal of the singer as a...

Conversation

August 9, 2019Brett Krutzsch, Kali Handelman

Revealer Editor, Kali Handelman, interviews Brett Krutzsch about his new book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the...

Review

October 10, 2018Ed Simon

A review of Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton

November 22, 2011

God spends $390 million lobbying Washington every year. Jonathan Jones writes at The Guardian about the now-iconic photo...

May 11, 2010

Mary Valle: Wow! Rachel Donadio reports in the New York Times that Pope Benedict has proclaimed that "sins...

July 25, 2005

BAGnewsNotes looks beyond the veneer of St. Frist’s would-be martyrdom.

June 4, 2004

The making of martyrs: Nancy Updike, Malia Zoghlin, and Michael Wean combine photographs and sound to document — step by step — the...