Jeff Guinn’s new biography-cum-history is a study of persuasion and power in Peoples Temple, the twentieth-century socialist cult led by preacher Jim Jones
G.K. Chesterton, huge in every sense, was provided with a special chair during a 1930 conference at St. Michael's College in Toronto. Where is this memento now?
A collection of Commonweal’s most insightful book essays, featuring Cassandra Nelson on Flannery O’Connor and Luke Timothy Johnson on Thomas Merton as a writer
John F. Kane’s book shows why Jesuit scholar William F. Lynch’s disappearance from the intellectual and cultural scene was as thorough as it was regrettable
Mark Roche’s book is relevant to the discussion of the woes of Catholic higher education over the past 50 years, but it has ambitions beyond this discussion
