A new exhibit at the Morgan Museum and Library traces tarot's transformation from a courtly card game in fifteenth-century Milan into a map of the modern subconscious.
Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.
The West still pictures India as rooted in Gandhian tradition. But it is Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's radical nationalism that drives Indian politics today.
J. D. Vance’s ‘Communion’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ are two sequels to splashy, confessional memoirs by millennial authors. Only one of them is fun to read.
Dave Eggers’s latest novel is the meditation of an older, successful artist on what his life might have been if he had been unable to work successfully.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, provocative art came to be leveraged for right-wing political power. We're still dealing with the consequences.
Many psychedelic users emerge from their trips with renewed interest in the communal and symbolic life of the world’s religions. Catholic leaders should take their experiences seriously.
'The Sheep Detectives' is a family-friendly whodunit that also takes up profound questions about the human condition. Its worldview isn't wholly incompatible with the complexity of our faith.
From the point of AI to the Church's role in slavery, 'Magnifica humanitas' provides a rich analysis of creativity and humanity. Commonweal contributors weigh in.
Chris Jennings's book about violent Christian separatists traces the fracturing of American society. But was America ever whole before, and can it ever be now?
The Eucharist is not just the summit of our Catholic experience. It is also the source of our conviction to live as Christ did, giving ourselves to others in daily life.
In 'Agnus Dei,' Massimiliano Camaiti follows the nuns tasked with raising lambs for a Vatican blessing. The documentary is subtly Christlike: humble, meek, and pure.
The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.
In 'Magnifica humanitas,' Pope Leo presents a genuinely universalist civilizational discourse, calling for a social order whose guiding principle is love.
In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.
Pope Leo's call for disarmament leaves room for the possibility that AI can have good uses. But those uses can only be discovered by those who work for flourishing communities.
Accumulating wealth is now the way many people seek to belong—to "buy" their place in the world. But an extrinsic source of belonging will always be fragile.
By serving as a voice for truth and challenging Americans to think critically about complex political issues, Colbert will go down in history as more than a comedian.
Among twentieth-century British artists, there seemed to be a mad rush to Rome. A new book endeavors to explain this explosion in Catholic conversions.
This year’s Venice Biennale was designed to be the most intimate and reflective in recent memory. Instead, it has turned into the most politically clamorous.
