Peter Quinn, a frequent contributor, is the author Dry Bones and Banished Children of Eve (both from Overlook Press), among other books. Update your account password & emailSubscribe to Commonweal
Article From Captive to Saint St. Patrick is often celebrated with a feast day of public misbehavior, but a new book offers a sober and scholarly stripping away of myth and fable. By Peter Quinn March 17, 2020 Books Saints Spirituality
Article The Wild East The Bowery was a great American frontier. The unwashed and unfettered roamed here, those who reveled in the American Dream and those defeated by it. By Peter Quinn April 4, 2019 Immigration Arts Poverty
Article “A Bronx Tale” Reeking of exhaust and incinerators, the Bronx was full of pizzerias, German and Jewish delis, and Irish bars—in other words, it was home By Peter Quinn December 12, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Immigration Vatican II
Article Unstilled Longings How, despite its political and cultural travails, Ireland earned an outsized role in making the modern imagination By Peter Quinn May 14, 2018 Books Foreign Affairs
Article Out of Reach Confronting the sadness and regret of a father’s remoteness By Peter Quinn October 4, 2017 End-of-life Issues
Article My Idiopathic Easter A novelist with epilepsy reflects on the supposed spiritual dimension of the illness By Peter Quinn April 12, 2017 Books Spirituality