Article Visionary Gradualist Pressure To Michael Harrington, socialism was the idea of a society in which certain fundamental limitations of human existence are transcended. By Gary Dorrien September 8, 2021 Politics Culture Books
Article Learning What to Want Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us. By Nate Klug September 8, 2021 Literature Higher Education
Article Theology’s Invisible Hand A new book offers a refreshing look at the influence of religion on the economic theories of Adam Smith. By Daniel K. Finn September 7, 2021 Economy Nonfiction History
Article The Same Anew The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task. By Anthony Domestico September 2, 2021 Poetry Interview
Article Too Big to Not Fail Neither a polemic nor a manifesto, Samuel Goldman’s ‘After Nationalism’ is instead a compelling reflection on the meaning of our country’s existence. By John Ganz September 2, 2021 History Nonfiction Immigration
Article A Reparative Vision A real commitment to equal consideration demands preferential treatment for those whose basic rights are most imperiled. By Kristin Heyer August 30, 2021 Social Justice Nonfiction
Article Troubled Waters Reefs are sacred spaces where scientific certainty gives way to mystery and awe. But climate change has made their extinction a very real possibility. By Bryan P. Galligan, SJ August 29, 2021 Environment Climate Change Nonfiction
Article An Impossible Job Rosa Brooks’s book shows that she is the rare individual who, by upbringing and career, is able to comprehend both activists and police officers. By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels August 14, 2021 Race Nonfiction Domestic Affairs
Article Critical Loitering Michael Hofmann’s writing is elegant, funny, and very strange, less interested in synthesis than exploration. By Anthony Domestico August 12, 2021 Poetry
Article Stirring the Embers of Faith Biographer Richard Greene draws out the facts behind Graham Greene’s fictions. By Gerald J. Russello August 8, 2021 Books Culture Spirituality
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 McDermott August 7, 2021 Fiction Books The Last Word
Article ‘Show Me Your Dantes’ An excerpt from Randy Boyagoda’s forthcoming novel, ‘Dante’s Indiana’ By Randy Boyagoda August 6, 2021 Books Fiction Culture
Article Velvet & Pus “To encounter the Catholic Church is to touch and smell and taste; to shiver. So too in the queer world.” By Eve Tushnet August 2, 2021 LGBTQ issues Theology U.S. Catholicism
Article ‘Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield’ The strange, syncopated, joyful, and utterly inimitable music of Etheridge Knight’s poems By Christian Wiman July 31, 2021 Poetry Spirituality
Article Mushroom as Metaphor Ecological systems—fungi in particular—provide a way to consider interdependence and relationships outside of competition and neoliberalism. By Vincent Miller July 28, 2021 Environment Philosophy Social Justice
Article Baseball, Journalism, and the Big New York City Novel An interview with Harper’s Magazine editor and novelist Christopher Beha By RAND COOPER July 26, 2021 Books Sports Interview
Article Seen and Not Seen Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, ‘Peaces,’ is a work of imaginative exuberance, at once absurd and moving. By Phil Christman July 25, 2021 Fiction Literature
Article Polanyi-ish A new book aims to upend the axiom that limiting the scope of market activity necessarily constricts freedom. By Matt Mazewski July 21, 2021 Economy Domestic Affairs Nonfiction
Article Bio Hazards 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. By Dominic Preziosi July 19, 2021 biography Books
Article What the Imagination Seizes The works of Greg Gerke and Rachel Eisendrath remind us why we come to art: to be changed, to find beauty, and to interpret our own lives. By Anthony Domestico July 17, 2021 Arts Literature Nonfiction
Article The Wanderer Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel paints a complicated portrait of a narrator burdened by regrets and lost opportunities. By Nicole-Ann Lobo July 15, 2021 Immigration Books Culture
Article No Turning Back Where Christians can agree with the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, and where they can’t. By David Bentley Hart July 14, 2021 Theology Philosophy Book Essay
Article Ancient, But Ever New Reading important texts in the original language is rarely a staid endeavor, but rather an unsettling intellectual challenge. By Cathleen Kaveny July 12, 2021 Books Culture Higher Education
Article Iconoclasm 2.0 ISIS’s 2015 destruction of Iraqi sculptures raises broader questions about the fraught relationship between politics, religion, and technology. By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman July 11, 2021 Middle East Foreign Affairs Nonfiction
Article Books in Brief The editors read Léon Bloy, an exploration of what it means to “do theology Latinamente,” and a study of medieval technology. By The Editors July 7, 2021 Books in Brief Nonfiction
Article Life as a House The dreams afforded by the dream house in Dana Spiotta’s new novel are often unsettling. By Adam Fleming Petty July 6, 2021 Fiction
Article Yours, Mine, or Ours An exploration of fracking in rural Pennsylvania reveals the effects of individualism on ecosystems and communities. By Gracy Olmstead July 3, 2021 Nonfiction Domestic Affairs Environment
Article The Inimitable Orwell “Politics and the English Language” remains an important essay, but we have done it a great disservice by turning it into a dusty school assignment. By John Rodden June 30, 2021 Education Nonfiction
Article Braced for Disappointment Tove Ditlevsen’s memoirs catalogue many relationships, but only one love affair: with narcotics. By Robert Rubsam June 24, 2021 Books Nonfiction Death and Dying
Article Religion Booknotes New theological books include titles about Raymond E. Brown, Communion and Liberation, and St. Teresa of Avila By Luke Timothy Johnson June 23, 2021 Books Religion
Article Love, Actively As Dostoevsky sees it, divine grace enables humans to perform the work of justice: helping the weak and confronting the powerful. By Paul J. Contino June 22, 2021 Fiction Spirituality The Last Word
Article Connecting the Dots Documenting the art and culture produced during the first decades of the Cold War By John T. McGreevy June 20, 2021 Culture Books Media
Article Aesthetic Transfiguration Francisco Goldman’s autofiction considers the moral and aesthetic demands of both the real and imagined. By Anthony Domestico June 16, 2021 Books
Article Opening Credits Reading celebrated director Billy Wilder’s journalism is like glimpsing the percolating brain of the genius to come. By Helene Stapinski June 9, 2021 Books Movies Nonfiction
Article A Mystic for Moderns Caryll Houselander drew on her artistic sense and keen observation of suffering to develop a spirituality of Christocentric compassion. By Joshua P. Hochschild June 7, 2021 Books Spirituality
Article The Good Son The 2020 Booker Prize–winning novel possesses a redemptive quality that rises above its episodes of negligence, anger, and sectarianism. By Diane Scharper June 6, 2021 Books Fiction
Article Beyond the Gummed Labels Fault lines between Secularists and Religionists in America help define partisan politics. By Kenneth L. Woodward June 4, 2021 Secularism and Modernity Nonfiction U.S. Catholicism
Article Captives of Habit A new introduction to William James illuminates his philosophy and struggles with mental health. By Gordon Marino May 23, 2021 Books Philosophy
Article Diversity & Division A new book explores how U.S. Catholic history can provide perspective and hope for the present moment. By Julia G. Young May 22, 2021 Books Religion History
Article Patients, Not Problems The American penal system is deeply dysfunctional, particularly in its treatment of the mentally ill. By Derek S. Jeffreys May 18, 2021 Nonfiction Social Justice
Article Disqualifying Isms All publishing companies draw a line. But who, exactly, gets to draw it? By Peter Steinfels May 14, 2021 Books Domestic Affairs Election 2020
Article Frightening Babble Don’t underestimate Don DeLillo. By Phil Christman May 12, 2021 Books Fiction
Article Priesthood, Reimagined A nuanced portrait of the lives and worship spaces of womanpriests By Mary Kate Holman May 5, 2021 Books Women in the Church
Article Near Misses In Rachel Cusk’s eleventh novel, questions about art, creativity, and freedom have elusive answers. By Kate Lucky May 4, 2021 Fiction Gender
Article A Serious Man Charles Péguy’s writing rethought the very terms available to describe experience, the visible and vanishing foundations of living. By Jack Hanson May 3, 2021 Philosophy Nonfiction Book Essay
Article Pattern & Novelty From Michael Robbins and Hannah Sullivan, grown-up poetry and poetry about growing up. By Anthony Domestico April 30, 2021 Poetry
Article Creating Time Poetry exploring the lyric now: not thought, but thinking; not lived, but living. By Anthony Domestico April 23, 2021 Poetry Books
Article The Beauty of the Incomprehensible In her new book, Karen Kilby leads even a lay reader through theoretical thickets with a gentle and steady hand. By Paul Baumann April 20, 2021 Theology Books
Article A Hybrid Voice For the novelist Xiaolu Guo, telling stories in English is an ongoing project to capture a life lived across China, Europe, and the United States. By Melody S. Gee April 18, 2021 Fiction Asia
Article Celebration & Lamentation Celebrating community and rootedness through poetry By Anthony Domestico April 16, 2021 Poetry Race
