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
Luke Timothy Johnson reviews books on (perhaps) the world’s oldest church, evolution and the Bible, the fear of God, and the relations between different monotheisms
‘America’s Dream Palace’ describes the collaboration between U.S. policymakers largely ignorant of the Middle East and the entities to which they turned for advice
If Leonard Cohen failed to live at the center of righteousness, he maintained a sense of where that center remained, and of how to find it again in prayer
For Pankaj Mishra, a “nativist radical right” and “radical Islamism” have emerged against a common backdrop of economic decline and social fragmentation
Like nearly every historian of American Catholicism in recent decades, Kevin Starr wanted to demonstrate the centrality of Catholics to the American history
A pair of novels, a collection of essays, an analysis of economics and Christian desire, mystical short stories, and a compendium of works on the undead
