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Paid articleCrisis Actor by Declan Ryan (April 2024)
BOOKS All a Matter of Tense ANTHONY DOMESTICO You could construct a history of modern literature just by writing about boxing. Start with the Marquess of Queensberry, who both helped codify...
Paid articleAbsolution by Alice McDermott (March 2024)
BOOKS Letters from War’s Edge ANTHONY DOMESTICO Early in Alice McDermott’s 2006 novel After This, a thirty-year-old unmarried woman named Mary Keane struggles with how to respond to some...
Paid articleApril Bernard (July 2023)
Something Greater An interview with April Bernard Anthony Domestico At one point in her sixth and latest collection of poetry, The World Behind the World, April Bernard writes that “almost nothing...
Paid articleToo Late for Grace? (July 2023)
Too Late for Grace? ANTHONY DOMESTICO “I feel seen.” Spend time on social media and you’re likely to come across this expression. Often, it’s used in a joking fashion. I’m a thir­ty-eight-year-old...
Paid articleYoga by Emmanuel Carrère (February 2023)
BOOKS Continuing Not to Die ANTHONY DOMESTICO “Thus inevitably does the uni­verse wear our own color, and every object fall suc­cessively into the subject itself.” So writes Ralph Waldo...
Paid articleAnge Mlinko (July 2022)
INTERVIEW ‘Blessed Happenstance’ An interview with Ange Mlinko Anthony Domestico In a 2019 piece for the New York Review of Books, the poet-critic Ange Mlinko quotes from Karen Solie’s...
Paid articleMessing About in Boats (November 2021)
Critical Loitering ANTHONY DOMESTICO In The Art of Attention, Donald Revell praises Robert Creeley’s poem “Oh Max” by clocking its speed: “It certainly does go fast, and then faster....
Paid articleDonald Revell (September 2021)
The Same Anew An interview with Donald Revell Anthony Domestico Donald Revell’s latest book of poetry, White Campion, opens with an epigraph from the Welsh poet Vernon Watkins: “Time reigns; yet...
Paid articleRemembering Denis Donoghue (May 2021)
BOOKS ANTHONY DOMESTICO 'Justly Responsive' What made Denis Donoghue a great critic One of the pleasures of subscribing to Commonweal for the past fifteen years has been the knowledge that...
Paid articleThe career of Mary-Kay Wilmers (April 2021)
ANTHONY DOMESTICO An Uncommon Tendency The career of Mary-Kay Wilmers In January, Mary-Kay Wilmers announced that she would be stepping down from her position as editor of the London Review of...
Paid articleRosanna Warren (January 2021)
INTERVIEW A conversation with Rosanna Warren Searching for the Sacred Anthony Domestico Max Jacob was born in 1876 to a business-owning Jewish family in Quimper, an administrative center of...
Paid articleThe Math Campers (November 2020)
BOOKS 'Because Time' ANTHONY DOMESTICO The first words of the first poem in Dan Chiasson’s first collection, The Afterlife of Objects (2002), concerned time: “Do our words count so late at night,...
Paid articleBooknotes (May 2020)
BOOKS Booknotes Anthony Domestico LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD paul lisicky Graywolf, $16 240 pp. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus says at the empty tomb. He said it before, at the...
Paid articleThe poetry of Lawrence Joseph (May 2020)
ARTICLE ‘So Many Selves’ Anthony Domestico A CERTAIN CLARITY Selected Poems lawrence joseph Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28 | 208 pp. A poet of unlikely combinations …So many selves— the...
Paid articleFanny Howe’s poetry of bewilderment (November 2019)
ARTICLE Saying the Unsayable Anthony Domestico Fanny Howe's poetry of bewilderment Every year or so, we're gravely informed of the death of Catholic literature: how there aren't any Catholic...
Paid articleLike (February 2019)
Anthony Domestico Seeing & Seen Like Poems A. E. Stallings Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 160 pp. There were a lot of great books of poetry published last year, and there were a lot of great...
Paid articleA Conversation with Peter Cole (February 2019)
INTERVIEW Sacraments of Secular Consciousness An Interview with Peter Cole Anthony Doméstico Ifirst met the poet and translator Peter Cole at an academic lunch. I was a grad student in English;...
Paid articleBookmarks (January 2019)
Bookmarks Anthony Domestico What the hell did I just read? That's what I thought after tearing through Fleur Jaeggy's These Possible Lives (New Direction, $12.95, 64 pp.). Though I suppose you'd...
Paid articleThe Elements of Style (November 2018)
INTERVIEW The Elements of Style A Conversation with William Giraldi William Giraldi is the author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark, and of a memoir, The Hero's Body. In August...
Paid articleBookmarks (September 2018)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Doméstico Everything I know about Idaho I learned from Mari-lynne Robinson. I suppose that's not quite true. I have a friend from Coeur d'Alene who feels a complicated love for...
Paid articleA Choreography of Praise (August 2018)
ARTICLES A Choreography of Praise Micheal O'Siadhail's Five Quintets Anthony Domestico Toward the end of Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail's new and almost unimaginably ambitious book The Five...
Paid articleThe Changeling (July 2018)
Anthony Doméstico The Wildness of God The Changeling Joy Williams Tin House, $19.95, 336 pp. Joy Williams's The Changeling belongs on the same shelf as Mari-lynne Robinson's Housekeeping and...
Paid articleDevotions (April 2018)
Anthony Domestico A Hard-Earned Detachment Devotions Timothy Murphy North Dakota State University, $24.95, 192 pp. The poet Timothy Murphy's new collection, Devotions, begins with a trip to...
Paid articleBookmarks (January 2018)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico Literary biographies tend to come in two flavors. First, there’s the big, fat, encyclopedic type—the kind that gets called “magisterial,” the kind that wins awards....
Paid articleWhere the Mystery Lies (December 2017)
INTERVIEW Where the Mystery Lies An Interview with Alice McDermott Anthony Domestico Readers of Commonweal will need little introduction to Alice McDermott—a frequent contributor and one of...
Paid articleIntelligible Mysteries (November 2017)
Intelligible Mysteries Theology & Modernist Literature Anthony Domestico In The Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson warned against mixing theology and literature, claiming that “the ideas of...
Paid articlePortrait of Our Time (September 2017)
INTERVIEW Portrait of Our Time An Interview with Lawrence Joseph Anthony Domestico ^ ^ he intent is to make a large, serious / portrait of my time." These lines come from Lawrence Joseph's poem...
Paid article'Contrary by Temperament' (August 2017)
INTERVIEW 'Contrary by Temperament' An Interview with Francis Spufford Anthony Domestico There's more life and variety in a single page of Francis Spufford's prose than there is in many...
Paid article'A Kindly Presence of Mind' (July 2017)
INTERVIEW 'A Kindly Presence of Mind' An Interview with George Saunders Anthony Domestico When I first e-mailed George Saunders in September to see if he'd be willing to chat about his first...
Paid articleSlight Exaggeration (June 2017)
Anthony Domestico Double Focus Slight Exaggeration An Essay Adam Zagajewski Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 288 pp. In his 1942 poem "Of Modern Poetry," Wallace Stevens offers seemingly...
Paid articleBookmarks (January 2017)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico There's never been a better novelist of ideas than Dos-toevsky, and there's never been a better expression of the power of ideas—how they might not just drive action...
Paid articleA Problematic Believer (September 2016)
INTERVIEW A Problematic Believer An interview with David Means Anthony Domestico David Means, a recognized master of the short story, is the author of four collections of fiction, most recently...
Paid article'I Want Soul' (July 2016)
'I Want Soul' An Interview with C. E. Morgan Anthony Domestico In 2009, C. E. Morgan published All the Living, a lonesome, lovely debut novel set on a Kentucky tobacco farm. Morgan knew the...
Paid articleWaiting for the Past (June 2016)
Anthony Domestico Look Again Waiting for the Past Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 96 pp. Les Murray is a poet of immensity. First, there's the immensity of his output. Born in 1938...
Paid articleBookmarks (February 2016)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico Early in her dazzling new book H Is for Hawk (Grove Press, $26, 320 pp.), the poet and naturalist Helen Macdonald learns that her father has died of a heart attack. A...
Paid articleUtopia, Limited (December 2015)
Anthony Domestico Realistic Radicals Utopia, Limited Romanticism and Adjustment Anahid Nersessian Harvard University Press, $39.95, 280 pp. In Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment,...
Paid articlebookmarks (November 2015)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico You’d be hard-pressed to name a modern poet more quoted or loved than Philip Larkin. His perfectly cadenced, precisely phrased lines come unbidden to the mind...
Paid articleBookmarks (August 2015)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico In early 2014, two of America's best liberal journalists, Jonathan Chait of New York magazine and Ta-Nehishi Coates of the Atlantic, engaged in a public debate about...
Paid articleThe Green Road (July 2015)
BOOKS Anthony Domestico Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The Green Road Anne Enright W. W. Norton & Company, $26.95, 304 pp. ^ I look at the people queuing at the till, and I wonder are they...
Paid articleThe Age of the Crisis of Man (June 2015)
Anthony Domestico Mansplaining The Age of the Crisis of Man Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 Mark Greif Princeton University Press, $29.95, 448 pp. In Ben Lerner's 2011 novel Leaving...
Paid articleBookmarks (December 2014)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico What do we mean when we call a story a “fairy tale”? Nowadays, the term is often used pejoratively. It means that the story has failed the test of realism, that it...
Paid articleBlessings in Disguise (November 2014)
ARTICLES Blessings in Disguise The Unfashionable Genius of Marilynne Robinson Anthony Domestico In her essay “When I Was a Child I Read Books,” the novelist Marilynne Robinson describes how,...
Paid articleAccepting the Disaster (October 2014)
Anthony Domestico Gift & Bait Accepting the Disaster Poems Joshua Mehigan Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23, 96 pp. Accepting the Disaster, Joshua Me-higan’s superb new collection of poetry,...
Paid articleBookmarks (June 2014)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico Denis Donoghue once wrote that James Merrill's poetry was "a net of loose talk tightening to verse." This is also a good way to describe Spencer Reece's new poetry...
Paid article'Being Prepared for Joy' (May 2014)
INTERVIEW Being Prepared for Joy An interview with Christian Wiman Anthony Domestico Christian Wiman is the former editor of Poetry magazine and a current faculty member at the Yale Institute of...
Paid articleSpeedboat Pitch Dark (April 2014)
Anthony Domestico Fiction in Fragments Speedboat Renata Adler New York Review Books, $14, 192 pp. Pitch Dark Renata Adler New York Review Books, $14, 168 pp. Henry Green, one of the most...
Paid articleBookmarks (January 2014)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico This, we're told, is the moment of the short story. Critics, desperate for encouraging news in discouraging times, have declared the short story the perfect form for...
Paid articleFor the Time Being (December 2013)
BOOKS Anthony Domestico Making the Past Present For the Time Being A Christmas Oratorio W. H. Auden Edited by Alan Jacobs Princeton University Press, $19.95, 142 pp. There are some writers...
Paid articleBookmarks (May 2013)
BOOKMARKS Anthony Domestico Endings are times of reckoning. Now that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, it seems an appropriate moment to consider their costs. What have these wars...
Paid articleThe Fun Stuff (February 2013)
BOOKS Anthony Domestico Our Hazlitt? The Fun Stuff And Other Essays James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 336 pp. James Wood, a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the new...
Paid articleWords In Action (January 2013)
Articles Words in Action The Sacramental Poetry of David Jones Anthony Domestico For the modernist poet and painter David Jones, the artist’s life always seemed a natural fit. Born in Kent in...
Paid articleStolen Air (September 2012)
Anthony Domestico Counting Down to Silence Stolen Air Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Selected and translated by Christian Wiman Ecco, $15.99, 128 pp. Reviewing poetry in translation is a...
Paid articleModernist Humanism and the Men of 1914 (August 2012)
Anthony Domestico 'Year 1 p.s.U.' Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914 Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot Stephen Sicari University of South Carolina Press, $59.95, 248 pp. Ezra Pound was a...
Paid articleThe Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq translated by Gavin Bowd (June 2012)
Anthony Domestico Second-rate Nietzsche The Map and the Territory Michel Houellebecq Translated by Gavin Bowd Knopf, $26.95, 288 pp. It’s perhaps easiest to introduce Michel Houellebecq, the...
Paid articleSex, Lies & Audiotape (May 2012)
Sex, Lies & Audiotape Anthony Domestico In a brilliant takedown of the TV series Mad Men in the New York Reivew of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn condemned what many take to be the show’s main...
Paid articleZone One (February 2012)
Anthony Domestico Brains... Zone One, the latest work of fiction by Colson Whitehead, is a zombie novel. Sure, it's a "literary" zombie novel, with better writing and more complex characterization...
Paid articleGod-Fearing and Free (December 2011)
Anthony Domestico Fantasies of Innocence God-Fearing and Free A Spiritual History of America's Cold War Jason W. Stevens Harvard University Press, $39.95, 448 pp. Karl Barth memorably...
Paid articleThe Pale King (August 2011)
BOOKS Anthony Domestico Death & Taxes The Pale King David Foster Wallace Little, Brown and Company, $27.99, 560 pp. When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, he left behind the...
Paid articleTo the End of the Land (March 2011)
Anthony Domestico An Act of Remembrance To the End of the Land David Grossman Translated by Jessica Cohen Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 576 pp. At one point in David Grossman's new novel, To the End...
Paid articleThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (February 2011)
Anthony Domestico Independent Worlds The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell Random House, $26, 479 pp. Late in David Mitchell's new novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,...
Paid article"Anglo-Catholic in Religion" (November 2010)
Anthony Domestico How He Believed "Anglo-Catholic in Religion" T. S. Eliot and Christianity Barry Spurr Lutterworth Press, $52.50, 340 pp. Barry Spurr's "Anglo-Catholic in Religion": T. S....
Paid articleParrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (May 2010)
Anthony Domestico On the Road Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 400 pp. The Australian novelist Peter Carey is a Victorian in postmodern clothing. His...
Paid articleCharles dickens by Michael slater (April 2010)
Anthony Domestico A Mutual Friend Charles Dickens Michael Slater Yale University Press, $35, 696 pp. In an 1841 letter, Charles Dickens claimed that his greatest ambition as a writer was "to...
Paid articleGenerosity (October 2009)
Anthony Domestico Pointless Counterpoint Generosity An Enhancement Richard Powers Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 296 pp. Richard Powers is that rare fiction writer more concerned with...
Paid articleGerard Manley Hopkins (March 2009)
Gerard Manley Hopkins A Life Paul Mariani Viking, $34.95, 496 pp. John Keats once advised his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with...
Paid articleHome (October 2008)
Commonweal . October 24, 2008 farrar, straus & giroux Acts of Apostles fect; every part of the story seems implicit in every other part, all of them unified by the narrator’s voice. These...
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