July/August 2021

The strange, syncopated, joyful, and utterly inimitable music of Etheridge Knight’s poems

An interview with Harper’s Magazine editor and novelist Christopher Beha

With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel paints a complicated portrait of a narrator burdened by regrets and lost opportunities.

Reading important texts in the original language is rarely a staid endeavor, but rather an unsettling intellectual challenge.

For the novelist Walker Percy, acedia was not just an arcane spiritual malady but a widespread, distinctly modern phenomenon.

If United States bishops are truly interested in Eucharistic coherence, humility would serve them better than punishing pro-choice politicians.

The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary.