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Bernard Bergonzi Greeneland The Man Within My Head Pico Iyer Knopf, $25.95, 256 pp. Librarians may have problems deciding where to shelve Pico Iyer's book. The Library of Congress notes...

Christmas Critics (December 2011)

Christmas Critics Bernard Bergonzi The editor suggested writing about books published in the past ten years, though he would tolerate a reference to something older. Taking full advantage of this...

The Age of Anxiety (November 2011)

BOOKS Bernard Bergonzi A Dive on Third Avenue The Age of Anxiety A Baroque Eclogue W. H. Auden Edited by Alan Jacobs Princeton University Press, $22.95, 200 pp. In 1941 an English critic...

Engerland (May 2011)

SHORT TAKES Bernard Bergonzi Engerland IDENTITY POLITICS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM The phrase "national identity" is popping up everywhere in Britain. I have read two recent books with those words...

Coalition of the Willing (June 2010)

Bernard Bergonzi Coalition of the Willing LETTER FROM BRITAIN England does not love coalitions," the great Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli told the House of Commons, and he was right. But...

Muriel Spark by Martin Stannard (May 2010)

Spring Books Bernard Bergonzi 'If I Write It, It's Grammatical' Muriel Spark The Biography Martin Stannard W. W. Norton, $35, 656 pp. Muriel Spark died in Italy in 2006 at the age of...

Brown Out (September 2009)

Short Takes Bernard Bergonzi Brown Out WHY THINGS LOK BLEAK FOR LABOUR Gordon Brown has now been prime minister of Great Britain for two years, but it looks as if he will lose his job...

The Catholic Novel (May 2007)

The Catholic Novel Is There Any Such Thing? I'--. t",q ..v" r,9 10 Bernard Bergonzi R ichard A. Rosengarten's review of Graham Greene s Catholic Imagination by Mark Bosco (Commonweal,...

Changing of the Guard (April 2006)

Short Takes Bernard Bergonzi Changing of the Guard REPORT FROM ENGLAND The political landscape is altering here in Britain. The major parties are changing their leaders, and the remarkable...

Polish Connection (February 2006)

The Last Word Polish Connection Bernard Bergonzi T he death of a ninety-year-old Polish politician in October renewed my longstanding interest in his country. I had not previously heard...

Blair's Victory (May 2005)

was unnecessarily condescending toward other Christian traditions and to nonChristian religions. And then there is the way some theologians were handled: silencing and excommunication (in...

Opus Dei Today (February 2005)

stubborn resistance to liturgical change, from the use of the vernacular to Communion in the hand, permanent deacons, and altar girls? Why the obsession with prescribing human behavior? Saints...

The Life of Graham Greene, vol 3 by Norman Sherry In Search of a Beginning by Yvonne Cloetta, told to Marie-Francoise Allain, translated by Euan Cameron (October 2004)

BOOKS Greene at IOO Bernard Bergonzi araham Greene, who was born a hundred years ago, had an exceptionally long literary career. He published a slim volume of undergraduate verse in 1926,...

English Catholics (June 2004)

ENGLISH CATHOLICS A singular history & an uncertain future Bernard Bersonzi 0 nce, England was a Catholic country. The evidence lies all around, in the medieval cathedrals and churches now...

Pieces of My Mind (February 2004)

templative retreat, drenched more in sweat than in holy water. Lovely country churches dot the trail's haunting, quiet villages, but they are almost al-ways closed. Nonetheless, pilgrims of whatever...

Report from England Blair's war (October 2003)

Bernard Bergonzi REPORT FROM ENGLAND The truth & Tony Blair Tony Blair may be America's favorite Briton, but his troubles at home continue to mount. During his warmly received address to Congress...

Critics' choices for Christmas (December 2002)

Bernard Bergonzi Bernard Bergonzi, a longtime contributor, writes from Warwickshire, England. His biography of Matthew Arnold's Catholic brother, Tom, is forthcoming from Oxford University...

Correspondence Many voices (September 2002)

CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors 'Veigh' off course Patrick Giles's article on Simone Weil ("Looking for Simone," May 3) was very good; but writing from this side of the pond, I have to point out...

What does Tony want? (November 1998)

to lie. The most skillful manipulators are those who, at the moment they utter falsehoods, can self-deceptively be convinced of their own story. Private sexual behavior may not always...

One month A D D How can we make sense of the enormous outpouring of affection for the late Princess Diana? An Englishman takes stock (October 1997)

Bernard Bergonzi ONE MONTH A.D.D. (After Diana's death) With the passing of the years, I find the temptation I most have to resist is not lust or wealth or power, but cynicism. I had to struggle...

Blair wins with style (May 1997)

Bernard Bergonzi BLAIR WINS WITH STYLE Report from Britain Poiling Day was Thursday, May 1. That evening my wife and I were sitting in an Indian restaurant across the road from the local Labour...

Faith and Treason (January 1997)

GUYS & BOMBS Faith and Treason The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Antonio. Fraser Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $27.95,347 pp. Bernard Bergonzi A "penny for the Old Guy" wrote T. S. Eliot at the...

Critics' choices for Christmas (December 1996)

Bernard Bergonzi Bernard Bergonzi, recently retired from the University of Warwick, writes from England. One of the books I most enjoyed in the past year is Sir Frank Kermode's Not Entitled: A...

Who's Tony Blair? (August 1996)

Bernard Bergonzi WHO'S TONY BLAIR? Maggie Thatcher in reverse There is a general assumption in Britain that by next spring Tony Blair, leader of the Labour party, will be prime minister. May 1997...

Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet (January 1980)

Catholic, monk & priest THOMAS MERTQR: MONK AMD POET George Woodcock Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $7.95, $3.95 paper, 200 pp. Bernard Bergonzi George woodcock says of himself, "I am not a...

WAR AS LITERARY EXPERIENCE (April 1976)

BOOKS WAR AS LITERARY EXPERIENCE BERNARD BERGONZI The Great War and Modern Memory PAUL FUSSELL Oxford U. Press, $13.95 Americans who write about English culture often get it wrong, in ways that...

MEMOIRS OF A MODERN 'MARTYR' (June 1975)

BOOKS MEMOIRS OF A MODERN 'MARTYR' Memoirs JOZSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY Macmillan, $10 Once a hero, Cardinal Mindszenty lived long enough to be an embarrassment, not only to the Hungarian...

VIETNAM NOVELS: FIRST DRAFT (October 1972)

VIETNAM NOVELS: FIRST DRAFT BERNARD BERGONZI rr»O write a war novel one needs more than just a war. Indeed, thinking of War and Peace or The Red Badge of Courage, one might say that a...

Bergonzi, John Ratte, David Denby, Bernard

Bergstrom, Jim

Berkman, John

Berkow, Ira

Berkowitz, Peter

Berle, A. ,4. Jr.

Berlinski, Mischa

Berlow, Alan

Berman, Paul

Berman, Susan

Bermann, Karl

Bernanos, Georges