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July 7, 2017

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His Bleak Materials

Characters in the fiction of J. F. Powers reveal the limitations and consolations of belief, and his work affirms his faith even as it challenges it

July 18, 2017

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Lie, Memory

Can we trust our memories and what's in our heads? Dan Chaon's novel ‘Ill Will’ pursues this question to thrilling effect

By Dominic Preziosi

July 10, 2017

Books

Fiction

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A Defiant Imperfection

Is Elif Batuman's vivid first novel “autofiction”?

July 10, 2017

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A Short Story by Alice McDermott

‘There is a hunger. It was a lesson she had learned and then forgotten across the years...’ An excerpt from Alice McDermott’s forthcoming novel

By Alice McDermott

July 7, 2017

Fiction

Books

Claude McKay, circa 1925 / Alamy Stock Photo

Feature

Prophet of Harlem

Besides Claude McKay’s status as a canonical poet of the Harlem Renaissance, there’s another side of him that rarely comes into public view

July 7, 2017

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Women’s Work

This adaptation of the harrowing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has struck a chord with Americans chafing at Trump

By Celia Wren

June 23, 2017

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Extremists, ‘X-Men,’ and an Ex-Governor

Jakarta’s stormy 2017 competition for governor has been a political season like no other

By David Pinault

June 21, 2017

Muslim-Christian Relations

Foreign Affairs

Article

Just Build It

How the Trump administration's approach to infrastructure is woefully inadequate

By The Editors

June 21, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Economy

Article

Solidarity or Silence?

Despite making religious liberty its signature issue, the USCCB never condemned the threats and insults to American Muslims that echoed at Trump’s rallies

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

June 20, 2017

Article

Letter from Germany

Germans across the political spectrum now believe that the United States is much less likely to stand with them in a time of crisis

By William Collins Donahue

June 9, 2017

Feature

An Interview with George Saunders

Anthony Domestico talks with author George Saunders about his new novel, habits of mind, the after-life, and what America is about

By Anthony Domestico

July 10, 2017

Books

Article

Two Poems by Michael Cadnum

"The garden at night coy shadow, / fishpond thick with softly / gleaming algae."

By Michael Cadnum

June 26, 2017

Poetry

Article

The Fundamentals

Two off-the-beaten-path documentaries on two fundamental human activities: eating and dying

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 26, 2017

Media

Children in Bangalore, India / CNS photo

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‘Still She Is a Wonderful Girl’

I’d come to India in 1981. Was my mother-in-law still waiting for me to become a Hindu?

By Jo McGowan

June 26, 2017

Columnists

Spirituality

Article

Poem | St. Joseph's Cemetery

"I am reminded / how rooted I am / to the ground of my being"

By John Perrault

June 21, 2017

Poetry

Article

Shop Talk

In ‘The Face of Water,’ Sarah Ruden aims to convey the intimate, humble, intrusive, and inescapably rude process of translating the Bible

By Jack Miles

June 21, 2017

Books

Article

Letters | Anonymous priests, voodoo economics, etc.

Readers consider one-issue voters, virtuous bishops, contrasting cardinals, and praise Commonweal Local Communities.

By The Editors

June 21, 2017

Letters

Article

Losing His Way

J. M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ doesn't offer readers a point

By Cassandra Nelson

June 21, 2017

Books

Fiction

Poetry

Poem | Summer Addresses

"They keep arriving, defying / the summer heat"

By Bibhu Padhi

June 21, 2017

Poetry

Article

The Other Guy

There is a certain malaise in the Catholic Church when it comes to the Holy Spirit. We do not quite know what to say.

By Jerry Ryan

June 21, 2017

Spirituality

Theology

Article

Not the ‘Age of Trump’

What is actually going on is something that Donald Trump hasn’t, won’t, and can’t affect

By Andrew J. Bacevich

June 2, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

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