Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

Griffin Oleynick is an assistant editor at Commonweal. Anthony Domestico is Associate Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY and a columnist at Commonweal.

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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 Domestico

September 28, 2020

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Summer Readings & Screenings

We take a close look at the evils of Italian fascism, with help from Natalia Ginzburg and Ettore Scola.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

June 24, 2020

Nonfiction

Movies

Web Exclusive

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Summer Readings & Screenings

Soviet novelist Vasily Grossman is not often thought of as a religious thinker. But his Armenian travelogue shows a different, more numinous side of his work.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

August 23, 2019

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Summer Readings & Screenings

The 1947 masterpiece ‘In a Lonely Place’ elevates noir conventions to perfection, finding evil in society, in others, even in ourselves.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

July 11, 2019

Fiction

Movies

Ethics

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Summer Readings & Screenings

Faith in God is an absurdity, as is Christ himself, and the believer must boldly, absurdly choose Christ anyway, again and again and again.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

August 20, 2020

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Summer Readings & Screenings

In this second installment of our summer series, we’re thinking about race in America with help from Harold Cruse and Kathleen Collins.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

July 10, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Engaging Confederate Nostalgia

For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?

By Richard Brown

May 10, 2023

Religion

St. Philip Neri’s Eucharistic Joy

Philip Neri is just the kind of saint we need: a model of lightness of spirit, divine laughter, and extraordinary ordinariness.

By John Rodden

May 26, 2023

Culture

Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

By Jennifer Banks

May 26, 2023

Books

Changing Our Minds About Time

In her latest book, Jenny Odell challenges the very idea of time management.

By Katherine Lucky

May 7, 2023

Collections

Father’s Day

Commonweal writers reflect on their fathers and fatherhood.

By The Editors

June 15, 2022