Literary Fiction

Views and reviews of Catholic literary fiction. This page is indexed alphabetically by author.

Bernanos, Georges

• Diary of a Country Priest

Buechner, Frederick

• The Storm (reviewed by Debra Murphy)

Chopin, Kate

• The Awakening
  

Dickens, Charles

• A Tale of Two Cities

English, Isobel

• Every Eye (reviewed by Debra Murphy)

Greene, Graham

• The Power and the Glory

Hansen, Ron

• Hitler’s Niece: A Novel (reviewed by Debra Murphy)
• Mariette in Ecstacy (1992)

James, Henry

• The American (reviewed by John Murphy)

Lodge, David

• Deaf Sentence
• Souls and Bodies (reviewed by John Murphy)
• The British Museum is Falling Down (reviewed by John Murphy)

Mauriac, Francois

• Woman of the Pharisees

McEwan, Ian

• On Chesil Beach (reviewed by John Murphy)
• Debra Murphy’s article on the fiction of Ian McEwan

Murphy, Debra

• The Mystery of Things

Oates, Joyce Carol

• Wild Nights

O’Gorman, Farrell

• Awaiting Orders

Percy, Walker

• The Moviegoer

Roth, Philip

• Everyman

Tartt, Donna

• The Secret History (reviewed by Debra Murphy)

Updike, John

• A Month of Sundays, reviewed by John Murphy
• Widows of Eastwick

Waugh, Evelyn

• Brideshead Revisited