Mary McCarthy's writing is always taking the temperature of the room, feeling the social shifts in attention and power, uncovering pettiness and mistaken victories
A collection of Commonweal’s most insightful book essays, featuring Cassandra Nelson on Flannery O’Connor and Luke Timothy Johnson on Thomas Merton as a writer
If Leonard Cohen failed to live at the center of righteousness, he maintained a sense of where that center remained, and of how to find it again in prayer