MAY 2021 COMMONWEAL; Reader Comments

MAY 2021 COMMONWEAL 

FROM THE EDITORS

Courage & convictions

COMMENT

Violence in Tigray (Regina Munch)

The Chauvin conviction (Isabella Simon)

Justice Breyer needs to retire (Matthew Sitman)

SHORT TAKES

Letter from the United Kingdom (Felix Robertson)

No more waiting  (Susan Bigelow Reynolds)

Biden’s foreign policy (Andrew Bacevich)

Antigonish activist (Michael W. Higgins)

CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS

‘Identity’ & narrative Paul J. Griffiths, (Daniel Walden)

ARTICLES

Life in the Big Zone (Timothy Snyder)

Rethinking interfaith dialogue (Thomas Albert Howard)

From princes to managers (Massimo Faggioli)

The militant mysticism of Charles Péguy (Jack Hanson)

ARTS

‘Grief and Grievance’ 9Clifford Thompson)

BOOKS

The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade  (Reviewed by Valerie Sayers)

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler (Reviewed by Jacob Bacharach)

The Silence by Don DeLillo  (Reviewed by Philip Christman)

American Catholics by Leslie Woodcock Tentler (Reviewed by Julia G. Young)

Waiting for an Echo by Christine Montross (Reviewed by Derek S. Jeffreys)

Womanpriest by Jill Peterfeso  (Reviewed by Mary Kate Holman)

Remembering Denis Donoghue ( Anthony Domestico )

POETRY

“Wolf Mother” (Michael Cadnum)

“Midas and Midas” (Peter Cooley)

“Saint’s Novella” (Danielle Chapman)

“Elan Vital” (Luke Timothy Johnson)

“Once More” (Nikia Leopold)

LAST WORD

Two adoptions Melody S. Gee

CLOSING SHOT Nancy Shia

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