Article Ride Blind Maggie Nelson’s latest book challenges us to embrace nuance and complexity, resisting “right” answers and straight stories.By Paul J. GriffithsOctober 14, 2021 Nonfiction Climate Change Philosophy Arts
Feature The Other Afghanistan American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.By Solmaz DaryaniOctober 2, 2021 Middle East Climate Change Arts
Article In Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021 Arts Theology Death and Dying
Feature Diverted Waters The U.S.-built border wall separates Mexicali and the Imperial Valley agricultural region.By Alexander HeilnerAugust 24, 2021 Closing Shot Arts Climate Change
Feature The Art of Survival An HBO docuseries and a new memoir reimagine popular accounts of abusive artists from the perspective of survivors.By Hannah GoldAugust 12, 2021 Nonfiction Movies Arts
Feature Unlocked Affinities Pairing the paintings of Chaïm Soutine and Willem de Kooning offers viewers a luminous vision of life outside time.By Griffin OleynickJuly 18, 2021 Arts
PoliticsReckoning with Guantánamo The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.By The EditorsSeptember 28, 2021
Religion‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021
CultureIn Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021
Books‘Sops to Humanity’ Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.By Phil KlayOctober 4, 2021
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
