Books

Article

Mantel’s Mastery

The late British novelist Hilary Mantel was masterly in showing how nothing touching on human desire is quite what it appears to be at first blush.
Article

At Summer’s End

Some books are best read in fall, after the smell of salty air and sunscreen has returned to memory, and as you find yourself wondering where exactly summer went.
Article

Off-Kilter

‘Midwood’ is both intimate and distanced. It offers us access to dreams and erotic experience; it keeps us at a remove through irony and syntactical oddity.
© 2025 Commonweal Magazine. All rights reserved. Design by Point Five. Site by Deck Fifty.