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

Readers praise the Commonweal Local Communities, weigh in on Rod Dreher’s book ‘The Benedict Option,’ science fiction, and crisis pregnancy centers

Robert Kaplan’s travel book ‘Earning the Rockies’ is, among other things, an introduction to Trump’s America

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 cartoonish take on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, and a one-character story that’s a feast for Kristin Stewart

Macy Halford’s ‘My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir’ is a strange, wonderful, devotional book about another devotional book

Mary Gordon’s latest challenging, heartfelt novel is about the questions we can’t avoid, whether we are prospering or perishing

The GOP health plan did not pass the test proclaimed in the Gospel and endorsed by the pope