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reviewed by Rachel Murphy It is in a night in 1946, a black wet January night that our narrator, Maurice Bendrix—whose very name implies something bent, slanted—wants to draw his reader to in order to begin his tale, which, in his words, is a record of hate far more than of love. He begins with [...]
Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Penguin Classics (April 26, 2005) ISBN-10: 0143039113 ISBN-13: 978-0143039112 reviewed by Roy Peachey If you’re after brilliant writing and an exciting plot and don’t mind dodgy theology then Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear is the book for you. Greene called his novel an ‘entertainment’ but it is clearly much more [...]
Rev. Robert E. Lauder has an article in the recent edition of America magazine on the fiction of Alice McDermott, comparing her novels to those of other famous Catholic novelists such as Graham Greene, and identifying her as what he calls a “Transcendental Thomist.” Here’s an excerpt: Over the last seventeen years, as the coordinator [...]
Michael Dirda, Washington Post’s perspicacious literary critic, sets his sights on a new collection of correspondence by Graham Greene, the great Catholic novelist. He writes: His men and women are murderers, traitors, unhappy adulterous lovers, sinners of every stripe–and he doesn’t glamorize their seediness, their misery, or their desperation. Evelyn Waugh bluntly called them “charmless.” [...]
Reviewed by John Murphy Yours, Now and Forever The last priest in Mexico is on the run. The Church has gone underground, outlawed by the incumbent Powers-that-Be. Owning a rosary or a prayer book will land you in jail. Faithful Catholics thirst for the Mass, for the Eucharist, for God, but must content themselves with [...]
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