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Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

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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.” [...]

New biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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From Michael Dirda’s Washington Post review of a new biography of the Catholic poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, written by Paul Mariani: “There have been several previous biographies of Hopkins, including a fine one by Robert Bernard Martin, an eminent scholar of Victorian poetry. But Mariani’s possesses three great strengths: 1) Mariani has lived with Hopkins’s [...]

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