Friendship & desire: Augustine reviews `Will & Grace'.

Commonweal | September 27, 2002| | Copyright

Will and Grace are the main characters in NBC's wildly successful sitcom about the relationship between a gay man of deliberate sensibility (he's a lawyer) and a free-spirited straight woman (she's an interior designer) who share a New York City apartment. As Catholics of a certain age and education will also know, "will" and "grace" are also the main categories used by Augustine to map the complicated terrain of the human psyche.

After catching a few episodes of Will & Grace over the past couple of years, I wondered what Augustine would say about the lives and ...

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