Article Eat or Get Eaten ‘The White Tiger’ turns a hard gaze on India’s unforgiving social stratification and what it takes to break through it.By Nicole-Ann LoboMarch 3, 2021 Movies India Culture
Article Béisbol, Baseball, and ‘Bad Hombres’ A Showtime documentary uses baseball to highlight contemporary border issues. But béisbol has always been a migration narrative on its own terms.By Carmen M. Nanko-FernándezFebruary 11, 2021 Movies Sports Immigration
Article ‘Citizen Kane’ Revisited ‘Mank,’ a new movie about the politics behind ‘Citizen Kane,’ focuses on Upton Sinclair—a friend of Commonweal’s founding editor.By Paul BaumannJanuary 22, 2021 Movies
Article Hurricane Quebecois Who is a freedom fighter and who is a terrorist—and who gets to decide?By Rand Richards CooperDecember 30, 2020 Movies
Article Civic Art Frederick Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’ explores the performance, promotion, and presentation necessary to running a major city.By Patrick PreziosiOctober 30, 2020 Movies Domestic Affairs
Article Readings & Screenings In the final installment of our series, we consider two landmark essays on Homer’s Iliad alongside Costa-Gavras’s Greek political thriller, ‘Z.’By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony DomesticoSeptember 28, 2020 Fiction Movies Philosophy Web Exclusive
PoliticsTell Me Your Story For Maria Hinojosa, journalism requires shedding light on the people who have been ignored by mainstream narratives.By Regina MunchApril 6, 2021
ReligionWhat We’ve Been Missing This year has taught us in an unprecedented way what it means to hope for resurrection.By Roberto J. De La NovalApril 3, 2021
CultureThe House of Merrill Letters from James Merrill and verse from poets who follow him, all exploring arcana with surprising rhymes and intricate musicality.By Anthony DomesticoApril 9, 2021
BooksHope for Suffering Souls Kirstin Valdez Quade’s new novel centers around the radical promise of the Crucifixion.By Valerie SayersMarch 30, 2021
Books‘A Providentialism Without God’ Three new books interrogate America’s most cherished illusion.By Eugene McCarraherMarch 29, 2021
CollectionsNational Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday.By The EditorsApril 7, 2021
