catapult magazine

Items tagged Despair

• Fighting for a lost cause

  Radiohead?s new album continues the defeatist trend set by Beck and The Flaming Lips.

• Star-spangled dreams

  Wouldn't we all love to live in the country of our dreams?

• The outsider is back

  Beck's newest album, Guero, showcases his strengths.

• Friction makes fire

  On the energy that results from tension within the self and within communities.

• Aargh, are ye me matey?

  Certain manners of conviction can leave us feeling like outcasts in the empire.

• To tell the story

  An interview with Brenda Truelson Fox, director of the film Conviction.

• Drowning in culture

  A review of Deepa Mehta’s Water.

• Haunted by hope

  A reflection on expectations at the initiation of another Advent.

• Remembering hope

  With daily reminders of all of the reasons we have to despair, how can anyone possibly hold onto hope?

• An ordinary day

  A review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a film depicting a high school shooting that is alternately sensitive and detached.

• Neither Minnie Mouse nor Wonder Woman

  An overview of the genre and two specific novels reveals changing images of women.

• Kirstin’s recommendations 12.19.08

  Two historically-rooted fictions-a film about arms dealing and a novel about a Sudanese refugee-explore the lives of outsiders.

• Big Hope, small hope

  On our ridiculous attempt to walk with students through the valley of despair.

• Fighting despair in 2010

  Conan says goodbye with wise words that speak to the past, present and future.

• Wait for it

  An impending job change prompts questions about future expectations.

• The imperfect body

  Wrestling with church as a single mother.

• The hopes and fears of all the years

  Reflecting on the films Melancholia and Another Earth as Christmas approaches.

• Imagining rain

  Preparing for the third annual Huss Future Festival in the middle of a record-breaking drought.

• Living in the tension

  Grappling with the meaning of pain and the suffering body.

• The vision of trees

  Embracing all five senses in an autumn of the soul.