Article What the Imagination Seizes The works of Greg Gerke and Rachel Eisendrath remind us why we come to art: to be changed, to find beauty, and to interpret our own lives.By Anthony DomesticoJuly 17, 2021 Arts Literature Nonfiction
Article Exquisite & Thwarted Wong Kar-wai’s films explore obsession, suppressed desire, and the unsettling undercurrents running beneath composed surfaces.By Robert RubsamJune 28, 2021 Movies Asia Arts
Feature ‘There’re People Living Under Here’ An exhibit at the New Museum features Black artists brought together in sadness to find solace in company and commonality.By Clifford ThompsonMay 13, 2021 Arts Race
Feature Shades of Suffering To fully grasp the extent of Goya’s achievements, one must consider his drawings and prints.By Alejandro AnreusApril 8, 2021 Arts
Article ‘A Playwright of Ideas’ A new biography of Tom Stoppard explores the charmed life of a generous, talented writer.By Anthony DomesticoMarch 18, 2021 biography Arts Media
Feature Carceral Aesthetics An exhibit at MoMA PS1 teaches visitors to see the cruelty the prison system tries to hide, and to think expansively about a world in which prisons no longer exist.By Griffin OleynickMarch 16, 2021 Arts Media Social Justice
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
