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Article Stirring the Embers of Faith Biographer Richard Greene draws out the facts behind Graham Greene’s fictions. By Gerald J. Russello August 8, 2021 Books Culture Spirituality
Article Things Objects in a novel or story are created, chosen, and hand-delivered by the author, and as such they all quiver with meaning. By Alice McDermott August 7, 2021 Fiction Books The Last Word
Article ‘Show Me Your Dantes’ An excerpt from Randy Boyagoda’s forthcoming novel, ‘Dante’s Indiana’ By Randy Boyagoda August 6, 2021 Books Fiction Culture
Article Velvet & Pus “To encounter the Catholic Church is to touch and smell and taste; to shiver. So too in the queer world.” By Eve Tushnet August 2, 2021 LGBTQ issues Theology U.S. Catholicism
Article ‘Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield’ The strange, syncopated, joyful, and utterly inimitable music of Etheridge Knight’s poems By Christian Wiman July 31, 2021 Poetry Spirituality
Article Mushroom as Metaphor Ecological systems—fungi in particular—provide a way to consider interdependence and relationships outside of competition and neoliberalism. By Vincent Miller July 28, 2021 Environment Philosophy Social Justice
Article Baseball, Journalism, and the Big New York City Novel An interview with Harper’s Magazine editor and novelist Christopher Beha By Rand Richards Cooper July 26, 2021 Books Sports Interview
Article Polanyi-ish A new book aims to upend the axiom that limiting the scope of market activity necessarily constricts freedom. By Matt Mazewski July 21, 2021 Economy Domestic Affairs Nonfiction
Article Bio Hazards With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject. By Dominic Preziosi July 19, 2021 biography Books
Feature Unlocked Affinities Pairing the paintings of Chaïm Soutine and Willem de Kooning offers viewers a luminous vision of life outside time. By Griffin Oleynick July 18, 2021 Arts
Article The Wanderer Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel paints a complicated portrait of a narrator burdened by regrets and lost opportunities. By Nicole-Ann Lobo July 15, 2021 Immigration Books Culture
Article No Turning Back Where Christians can agree with the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, and where they can’t. By David Bentley Hart July 14, 2021 Theology Philosophy Book Essay
Article Ancient, But Ever New Reading important texts in the original language is rarely a staid endeavor, but rather an unsettling intellectual challenge. By Cathleen Kaveny July 12, 2021 Books Culture Higher Education
Article Still Unaccommodated Disrupting and repairing the structural inequalities in Church institutions is not easy, and often not welcome. By Brett C. Hoover July 10, 2021 Latin America U.S. Catholicism The American Parish Today
Article The Eviction Crisis President Biden has repeatedly said that “housing is a human right.” He will now have a chance to show the country he means it. By Griffin Oleynick July 9, 2021 Joe Biden Coronavirus
Article No More Blank Checks The House is repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. But other AUMFs remain in place, and those, too, must go. By Regina Munch July 8, 2021 War and Peace Joe Biden Middle East
Article Giving the Sickness a Name For the novelist Walker Percy, acedia was not just an arcane spiritual malady but a widespread, distinctly modern phenomenon. By Jeff Reimer July 7, 2021 Secularism and Modernity Culture Spirituality
Article Exxon’s Corporate Coup Could activist investors force the most notorious polluter in America down a greener path? By Isabella Simon July 2, 2021 Climate Change Domestic Affairs
Article Pastors, Not Prophets If United States bishops are truly interested in Eucharistic coherence, humility would serve them better than punishing pro-choice politicians. By The Editors July 1, 2021 U.S. Catholicism Joe Biden Bishops
Article Never Again? The history of the Holocaust shows that we must do more for China’s Uyghurs. By Elizabeth M. Lynch May 25, 2021 Foreign Affairs China
Article There Ought to Be a Law The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary. By Matthew Boudway May 24, 2021 Domestic Affairs
Article Near Misses In Rachel Cusk’s eleventh novel, questions about art, creativity, and freedom have elusive answers. By Kate Lucky May 4, 2021 Fiction Gender
Article Outliving Eden and its myths, / we find in space what / saves us. Poem | The Sum of Us By Samuel Hazo July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Two Poems by Michael Miller “In a town beyond / The mountains, we live / In the ripeness of old age” By Michael Miller July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | Kumquat “Might I be able to swallow this / fruit of spite? / Might I like it?” By Danielle Chapman July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Two Poems by Don Barkin “In autumn / gusts of paper-shuffling in lofty offices / will roil a lawn like God’s face on the waters.” By Don Barkin July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Books in Brief The editors read Léon Bloy, an exploration of what it means to “do theology Latinamente,” and a study of medieval technology. By The Editors July 7, 2021 Books in Brief Nonfiction
Article What we all need is more epistemic humility—from bishops, from epidemiologists, and most of all from violent insurrectionists. Letters | The Pitfalls of the Meritocracy By The Editors July 1, 2021 Letters