If you want to be a great writer, should you withhold your sentimental tendencies? The answer for most critics and writers seems to be yes. Sentimentality is often seen as a useful way of ...

The film Don Jon, recently released in theaters, has spurred a widespread media discussion about the ills of pornography. NPR, the Atlantic, and Ethika Politika all have interesting stories on the ...

Raoul Moat persuaded himself that he was as much a victim as the people he shot. The many tributes to him show that others take this seriously Credit: Photo: NORTH NEWS Turning on the radio one day, I ...

Mom and apple pie. Dogs and cats. Weddings and babies. God and country. We call people “sentimental” when they express unusually strong emotional attachments to events, objects, places, eras and ...

What does it mean to be a tourist inside someone else’s suffering? Sometimes, it means taking a bus ride through Los Angeles’s gang-ridden neighborhoods, or watching a former addict bleed and sweat ...

Recently, online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter caused a viral sensation with its #WorldMostLovedCEO video that featured an over-the-top farewell celebration for its departing CEO, Mark Sebba. In a ...

When I told a writer friend of mine I was writing about sentimentality, he said, surprisingly, “Are you for it or against it?” Conventional wisdom holds that sentimentality is categorically repugnant, ...

Talking to our new choir director today about sacred music. We both objected to some of the contemporary ‘praise and worship’ music. Here’s why: Has anyone noticed the peculiar fact that in many of ...

Getting some love for The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming today from Texas. From my pal Bill Holston’s review in the online version of D Magazine, out of Dallas: If I had to find a single word to describe ...