On The Exorcist at (just over) 50

And a sprinkle of Pharoah Sanders, France Culture, Tex Cobb, Heidi Berry, the Judge, a terrible film, and Charlemagne's elephant, with a light drizzle of aging and hypochondria

[Merrin and Karras, on task]

This is in print in the most recent Touchstone Magazine, paywalled here, but the magazine is well worth a subscription. Check out, for example, this beautiful essay on the meaning of suffering and the effort to do away with both by Adam Smith.