Drew Calvert

My short story "The Understudy," selected by Lorrie Moore, is available to read online at The Sewanee Review (a literary journal worthy of your support): thesewaneereview.com/articles/und...

The Cult of Doing Business Erik Baker’s history of the entrepreneurial work ethic explores the unholy union between American psychology and American business.

As a cradle Commonweal Catholic I was overjoyed by this wonderful review of Make Your Own Job by @drwclvrt.bsky.social! www.commonwealmagazine.org/calvert-work...

The May issue is here!
Feat.
- @paulelie.bsky.social on crypto-Catholicism in the 80s
- @regmunch.bsky.social on the natural-birth movement
- @drwclvrt.bsky.social on the entrepreneurial work ethic
- The Editors on Trump's offshore gulag
and much more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...

A Guest of the Management Why do startup bros need the alibi of poetry to launch their great extraction machines?

"Writers, in my experience, had a kind of jester’s privilege in the MBA and startup worlds."

@drwclvrt.bsky.social on his time servicing the literary pretensions of the MBA class:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/calvert-mba-...

The March issue is here! 🌦️
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- @drwclvrt.bsky.social on the cannibalization of literature
- @susanbreynolds.bsky.social on the cybertruck
- Jessica Swoboda on a Catholic humanities education
- George Scialabba on 'wokeness'
and much more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...

"The Understudy," Sewanee Review (Spring 2025): thesewaneereview.com/contest

"The Hostages," Ploughshares: pshares.org/issue-articl...

"Who We Are, What We Do," The Threepenny Review: www.threepennyreview.com/170_su22/

"Biases and Fallacies," The Missouri Review: missourireview.com/article/bias...

Social Learning - The Kenyon Review When Astrid, my boss, announced that she was pregnant, we were all surprised, each in our own special way. It was Monday morning, midwinter. Evanston was covered in a plush duvet of snow, and we had j...

"Social Learning," The Kenyon Review: kenyonreview.org/piece/social...

"Particles of the Genuine" appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Threepenny Review: www.threepennyreview.com/particles-of...

How Thomas Merton both loved and kept his distance from the world | Aeon Essays On his final journey through Asia, Thomas Merton found some peace in the dialectic between refusing the world and loving it

Some fine weekend reading for your delectation. On Thomas Merton's agonising over wanting both to live in the world and also retreat from it. Many of us sympathise with that dilemma!
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