Katherine Lucky

Katherine Lucky is the Managing Editor of Commonweal. Follow her on Twitter @katherinejlucky.

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Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.

By Katherine Lucky

October 9, 2019

Spirituality

Nonfiction

Article

Prayers from the People

For me prayer is concrete, a form of work. Politicians, though, have a different job, and in the wake of mass shootings, they have a duty to take action.

August 12, 2019

Article

Friends & Benefits

I agree with the values of sacrifice and care, and I often find Briallen Hopper’s writing tenacious and lovely. So why did her book leave me not quite satisfied?

June 17, 2019

Article

Baptized in the Charles

By the time I arrived at Harvard, the school was secular, yet haunted by faith. I’d been a practicing Christian for years, but had never been baptized.

By Katherine Lucky

May 24, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Article

Gather ’Round

Slow-paced and built on wildly imaginative premises, Karen Russell’s short stories teach us to approach life’s vicissitudes with curiosity, compassion, and delight.

By Katherine Lucky

April 27, 2019

Fiction

Article

There & Back Again

A collection of stocking stuffers for a commuter you love

December 8, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

Misenchantment

Mammon has seduced us. The only true path of resistance to capitalism’s destructive energies is one that leads away from the logic of markets.

By David Bentley Hart

January 6, 2020

Religion

A Cathedral Not Made by Hands

In an old-growth forest, everything is connected. No individual plant or animal, and indeed no species, is an island. As Pope Francis warns, we should pay attention.

By Vincent Miller

December 30, 2019

Culture

Pilgrims

Had I known before that the greatest gift of the road was the love of another human being? Of course I had. But I had not fully understood.

By Kathleen Hill

January 10, 2020

Books

Philosopher in the Ring

What can boxing teach us about the good life? Gordon Marino riffs on Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Camus, finding that in order to save our lives, we must risk loving.

By Steven Knepper

January 8, 2020

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019