Aaron Robertson is Commonweal’s inaugural Centennial Fellow. He is a writer, journalist, translator (from Italian), and former book editor. His nonfiction debut, The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), was named a New York Times Notable Book and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, the Hooks National Book Award, and the Zora Award for Nonfiction.
