Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.
Joe Biden’s Irish-Catholic background and personal experience of suffering have made him an eloquent and empathetic mourner for people across the political spectrum.
A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.