October 2021

Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.

Cynthia Ozick’s latest book chronicles mid-century U.S. culture and the friction between WASP America and Jewish people.

On the emerging trend of “literary fanfic,” fictional retellings of classic literature or the lives of historical figures

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

Sarah Ruden’s new translation of the Gospels is far from straightforward.

American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.

“We’ll never get beyond racism if we keep indulging the presumption that people of a particular color think alike, along color-coded lines.”