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Action & Contemplation
Season 1 Episode 13
We all want change: in our inner lives, in our friendships, in our politics. But what's the best way to get there?
Less, as they say, is often more. I…
6 years, 8 months ago
Crime & Sanctuary
Season 1 Episode 12
This month, we delve into courtroom dramas and sanctuary spaces.
Writer Casey Cep explores our growing fascination with true crime, and reveals Har…
6 years, 9 months ago
Literature & Longing
Season 1 Episode 11
Novelist Alice McDermott, a self-described “contrarian Catholic,” speaks about her forays into op-ed writing. Pulitzer-prize winning author Paul Hard…
6 years, 10 months ago
Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America with associate editor Matthew Sitman
Alice Quinn is the executive director of the Poetry Society of America, and is on the faculty of the graduate school of Columbia University. She was …
6 years, 11 months ago
Poet and memoirist Carolyn Forche with Garvey writing fellow Nicole-Ann Lobo
The poet Carolyn Forche is also an editor, translator and human-rights activist. Her most recent book is What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Wit…
6 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Extended Segment: National Poetry Month Edition: Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America, Shane McCrae, poet and Guggenheim fellow, and poet and memoirist, Carolyn Forché
Season 1
On this episode, we’re marking National Poetry month by featuring conversations with three wonderful writers. Our associate editor Matthew Sitman tal…
6 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Extended Segment: Eula Biss with Assistant Editor Griffin Oleynick
Eula Biss is artist-in-residence in the English Department at Northwestern University, where she also teaches creative writing. She’s the author of O…
7 years ago
Austen Ivereigh on the Vatican Summit on Clerical Sex Abuse, Eula Biss on "Whiteness", Hoffsman Ospino on the Latinx Church, and Tony Domestico with Novelist Kathryn Davis
Season 1 Episode 9
On this episode, Catholic journalist and papal biographer Austen Ivereigh talks with senior editor Matthew Boudway about the Vatican’s February summi…
7 years ago
Bonus Extended Segment: A Wide-ranging Chat with Archetypal New York Personality Fran Lebowitz
Last winter, we sat down for a conversation with Fran Lebowitz, the writer, speaker, wit, and archetypal New York personality. Here you'll hear an ex…
7 years ago
Marie Collins and Massimo Faggioli on Clerical Sex Abuse, Vinson Cunningham writes about hell, and Staffers on Swedish Abstractionist Hilma af Klint
Season 1 Episode 8
Dominic Preziosi sat down with Commonweal contributor Massimo Faggioli to get his thoughts about the upcoming bishops’ summit on clerical sex abuse, …
7 years, 1 month ago