Article Life in the Unspooling Now Sally Rooney’s latest novel explores the everyday messiness of contemporary life and relationships.By Ryan LackeyOctober 19, 2021 Fiction Secularism and Modernity
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Article Things Objects in a novel or story are created, chosen, and hand-delivered by the author, and as such they all quiver with meaning.By Alice McDermottAugust 7, 2021 Fiction Books The Last Word
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Article Seen and Not Seen Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, ‘Peaces,’ is a work of imaginative exuberance, at once absurd and moving.By Phil ChristmanJuly 25, 2021 Fiction Literature
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
