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Article His Bleak Materials Characters in the fiction of J. F. Powers reveal the limitations and consolations of belief, and his work affirms his faith even as it challenges it By Jeffrey Meyers July 18, 2017 Books Priesthood Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism
Article Lie, Memory Can we trust our memories and what's in our heads? Dan Chaon's novel ‘Ill Will’ pursues this question to thrilling effect By Dominic Preziosi July 10, 2017 Books Fiction
Article A Defiant Imperfection Is Elif Batuman's vivid first novel “autofiction”? By Phil Christman July 10, 2017 Books Fiction Higher Education
Article A Short Story by Alice McDermott ‘There is a hunger. It was a lesson she had learned and then forgotten across the years...’ An excerpt from Alice McDermott’s forthcoming novel By Alice McDermott July 7, 2017 Fiction Books
Feature Prophet of Harlem Besides Claude McKay’s status as a canonical poet of the Harlem Renaissance, there’s another side of him that rarely comes into public view By Griffin Oleynick July 7, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Books Race Spirituality
Article Women’s Work This adaptation of the harrowing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has struck a chord with Americans chafing at Trump By Celia Wren June 23, 2017 Media Books Women in the Church Television
Article Extremists, ‘X-Men,’ and an Ex-Governor Jakarta’s stormy 2017 competition for governor has been a political season like no other By David Pinault June 21, 2017 Muslim-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article Just Build It How the Trump administration's approach to infrastructure is woefully inadequate By The Editors June 21, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Economy
Article Solidarity or Silence? Despite making religious liberty its signature issue, the USCCB never condemned the threats and insults to American Muslims that echoed at Trump’s rallies By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly June 20, 2017 Ecumenism Social Justice Bishops U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump
Article Letter from Germany Germans across the political spectrum now believe that the United States is much less likely to stand with them in a time of crisis By William Collins Donahue June 9, 2017 Donald Trump Environment Foreign Affairs Climate Change
Feature An Interview with George Saunders Anthony Domestico talks with author George Saunders about his new novel, habits of mind, the after-life, and what America is about By Anthony Domestico July 10, 2017 Books
Article Two Poems by Michael Cadnum "The garden at night coy shadow, / fishpond thick with softly / gleaming algae." By Michael Cadnum June 26, 2017 Poetry
Article The Fundamentals Two off-the-beaten-path documentaries on two fundamental human activities: eating and dying By Rand Richards Cooper June 26, 2017 Media
Article ‘Still She Is a Wonderful Girl’ I’d come to India in 1981. Was my mother-in-law still waiting for me to become a Hindu? By Jo McGowan June 26, 2017 Columnists Spirituality
Article Poem | St. Joseph's Cemetery "I am reminded / how rooted I am / to the ground of my being" By John Perrault June 21, 2017 Poetry
Article Shop Talk In ‘The Face of Water,’ Sarah Ruden aims to convey the intimate, humble, intrusive, and inescapably rude process of translating the Bible By Jack Miles June 21, 2017 Books
Article Letters | Anonymous priests, voodoo economics, etc. Readers consider one-issue voters, virtuous bishops, contrasting cardinals, and praise Commonweal Local Communities. By The Editors June 21, 2017 Letters
Article Losing His Way J. M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ doesn't offer readers a point By Cassandra Nelson June 21, 2017 Books Fiction
Poetry Poem | Summer Addresses "They keep arriving, defying / the summer heat" By Bibhu Padhi June 21, 2017 Poetry
Article The Other Guy There is a certain malaise in the Catholic Church when it comes to the Holy Spirit. We do not quite know what to say. By Jerry Ryan June 21, 2017 Spirituality Theology
Article Not the ‘Age of Trump’ What is actually going on is something that Donald Trump hasn’t, won’t, and can’t affect By Andrew J. Bacevich June 2, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Secularism and Modernity