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IssueVol. 148 Issue 007 (July 1 2021)
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Paid articleLetters
The Pitfalls of the Meritocracy ‘INTELLIGENCE WORKERS’ The mostly bland diagnosis of the state of our union and our psyches in Charles McNamara’s essay “Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls” (June) is...
Paid articlePastors, not prophets
FROM THE EDITORS Pastors, Not Prophets “As a convert, I never expected much of the bishops,” Dorothy Day wrote in a 1968 letter. “In all history, popes and bishops and abbots seem to have been...
Paid articleCurbing carbon
Simon, Isabella
­­­­­­ ­­­­­­ No More Blank Checks On June 17, the House of Rep­resentatives voted to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Forty-nine Republicans joined all...
Paid articleThe eviction crisis
Oleynick, Griffin
­­­­ ­­­ The Eviction Crisis Even as the pandemic continues to recede in the United States and the economy shows signs of a strong (if uneven) recovery, another crisis looms just around...
Paid articleAncient, but ever new
Kaveny, Cathleen
CATHLEEN KAVENY Ancient, But Ever New The unsettling experience of reading St. Augustine in Latin Princeton University’s Depart­ment of Classics just announced that its majors will no...
Paid articleThere Ought to Be a Law
Boudway, Matthew
MATTHEW BOUDWAY There Ought to Be a Law The temptations of American legalism In this country, political movements to legalize something are usually also social movements to normal­ize it....
Paid articleStill Unaccommodated
Hoover, Brett C.
BRETT C. HOOVER Still Unaccommodated Why are Hispanic Catholics treated unequally in so many U.S. parishes? After more than a decade of researching parish life, and after teaching many...
Paid articleNever again?
Lynch, Elizabeth M.
ELIZABETH M. LYNCH Never Again? Lessons from the Holocaust apply to China’s Uyghurs. One of the few happy memo­ries Ann would share from her childhood was the time she spent in a Dutch...
Paid article"Elegy in a Puddle" and "More Weight"
Barkin, Don
Two Poems by Don Barkin ELEGY IN A PUDDLE Not being here, he can’t see this inky portrait of a tree, much less the tree against the sky which is the limit of the eye, reminding us that...
Paid articleGiving the Sickness a Name
Reimer, Jeff
Giving the Sickness a Name Jeff Reimer Walker Percy & acedia Acedia is Walker Percy’s great theme, and there is no place for it in America precisely because we have always been puzzled or...
Paid article"Kumquat"
Chapman, Danielle
KUMQUAT Danielle Chapman A kumquat bush crouches in the sedge at playground’s edge and I stand in the sand mashing one of its persimmon thumbs till oil prickles perfume pills on...
Paid articleNo Turning Back
Hart, David Bentley
No Turning Back David Bentley Hart The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that the “psycho-political” arrangements that once sheltered us are now irretrievable. He’s right: the old...
Paid articleVelvet & Pus
Tushnet, Eve
Velvet & Pus Eve Tushnet A queer Catholic imagination When I was in high school, I spent hours hunting for any hint of homosexuality in music, poetry, art—all the places people drop their...
Paid articleShow Me Your Dantes
Boyagoda, Randy
Show Me Your Dantes i. For my interview, the old man brought me to a sitting room on the main floor of his house, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out at a big, flat snowy field that...
Paid articleBaseball, Journalism, and the Big New York City Novel
Beha, Christopher
Baseball, Journalism, and the Big New York City Novel An interview with Christopher Beha Christopher Beha’s 2020 novel, The Index of Self-De­structive Acts (newly released in paperback),...
Paid articleUnlocked Affinities
Oleynick, Griffin
GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Unlocked Affinities ‘Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint’ In 1952, the Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning found himself in the Philadelphia suburb of Merion,...
Paid article"The Counting of Steps" and "Visitors"
Miller, Michael
Two Poems by Michael Miller THE COUNTING OF STEPS She borrowed her dreams From yesterday, Never forgetting the woman Who danced without a partner To the music within, The melody only...
Paid articleBio Hazards
Preziosi, Dominic
Bio Hazards DOMINIC PREZIOSI Near the beginning of Philip Roth’s 2000 novel The Human Stain, narrator Nathan Zuckerman contem­plates the unlikely tattoo worn by classics professor Coleman...
Paid articlePolanyi-ish
Mazewski, Matt
Polanyi-ish MATT MAZEWSKI Everyone has an opinion about “the free market.” To some, it’s a shining ideal; to others, an anarchic nightmare. But even for many of those who associate...
Paid articleNear Misses
Lucky, Katherine
Near Misses KATHERINE LUCKY We’ve heard this story before: A stranger arrives, bringing trouble. The stranger leaves. Things have changed. But in Rachel Cusk’s hands, a simple plot becomes...
Paid articleStirring the Embers of Faith
Russello, Gerald J.
Stirring the Embers of Faith GERALD J. RUSSELLO A poet friend of mine has often complained about the common assumption that learning the biographical details about a writer brings us closer...
Paid articleLife as a House
Petty, Adam Fleming
Life as a House ADAM FLEMING PETTY A man undergoing a midlife crisis buys a sports car. At least that’s the cliché I remember from the nine­ties. Perhaps the anxious men of today buy pickup...
Paid articleMushroom as Metaphor
Miller, Vincent
Mushroom as Metaphor VINCENT MILLER We live in a world being remade by neoliberalism in ways that go far beyond the exchange of goods and services. Convinced that the market is the best way...
Paid articleThe Wanderer
Lobo, Nicole-Ann
The Wanderer NICOLE-ANN LOBO Why do we leave where we come from? The question is cen­tral to writers of diasporic fiction, a diverse coterie within which Jhumpa Lahiri tends to be grouped....
Paid article"The Sum of Us"
Hazo, Samuel
the vivacious teenage daughter of a friend, whose escapades fill her with regret at her own “squandered youth, the absence of rebellion.” “In spring I suffer,” one entry begins. “The season...
Paid articleBooks in Brief
­­ ­­­­ BOOKS IN BRIEF John W. Farrell wants you to rethink your assump­tions about medieval technology: namely, that there wasn’t any, and that innovation languished during the...
Paid article'Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield'
Wiman, Christian
CHRISTIAN WIMAN ‘Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield’ A poem that’s reducible to a message is not a good poem. A poem you can paraphrase in prose is not a good poem. I feel absurd repeating such...
Paid articleThings
McDermott, Alice
Things ALICE MCDERMOTT The intersection of Route 27 and Main Street in East Hampton, New York, has enchanted me since I was a child. There is the postcard loveliness of it: the town pond...
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