An Uncommon Reading Adventure

Since 2001 The Common Review has published essays and reviews for readers interested in the books and ideas that appeal to our best intellectual and ethical values. We believe that a devoted core of serious readers persists in the face of increasingly driven by personalities, political rhetoric, and fads. Our writers deliver tough, street-smart prose that will challenge, amuse, and sometimes offend. We refuse to allow anyone the luxury of unexamined opinions—and that’s how we like it. We traverse a vast terrain of subjects: literary articles on the humiliated male in Saul Bellow’s fiction or the imminent death of the Western novel; international reportage that takes us from the musical Chicago on the Moscow stage to the lonely back roads of Japan favored by the drunken poet Taneda Santoka; interviews with luminaries like Christopher Hitchens and Benjamin Barber.

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