‘Brideshead’ Revisited & Revised The Mixed Reception of Waugh's Most Famous Novel Robert Murray Davis Evelyn Waugh cultivated a reputation for being cantankerous—he once listed some provocations...
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Robert Murray Davis About the Author Graham Greene A Life in Letters Edited by Richard Greene W. W. Norton, $35, 480 pp. The popular view of Graham Greene (1904-91) holds that he...
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THE LAST WORD GREENE & WAUGH IN TEXAS Robert Murray Davis When Graham Greene and his friend movie producer John Sutro founded the Anglo-Texan society in 1953 after meeting two charming Texas...
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BIRTHDAY BOYS Robert Murray Davis Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene might have enjoyed the superfluity of ironies attendant on the respective celebrations of Waugh's centenary at Oxford during the...
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Robert Murray Davis WAUGH REVISITED The author at 100 H. Auden maintained, in a phrase to chill the heart of any living writer, that on the death of William Butler Yeats, "he became his admirers."...
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C ORRESPONDENCE A clarification In my letter inquiring about the church's agenda regarding a sexual orientation that it considers objectively disordered, the editors of Commonweal replied,...
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significant was the fact that under the Hapsburgs, the church provided the major career opportunities for poor but bright and ambitious Slovene boys. In many parishes, the priest was the only...
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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Lewis carrol A Biography Morton N. Cohen Alfred A.Knopf,$35,577 pp Robert Murray Pavls Hhis book deals less with the works of the pseudonymous Lewis Carroll than with his...
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