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Kealey, Edward J.

Kearney, James F.

Kearney, John

KEARNS, FRANCIS E.

Keating, Joseph

KEATING, REV. JOSEPH

Keating, Thomas

Keegan, John E.

Keegan, Robert F.

Keelan, Jean

Keeler, Floyd

Keen, Suzanne

Christmas Critics (December 2008)

Commonweal . December 5, 2008 sens Suzanne Keen alluding to the classics, history, pop cul- in which rock stars rise to the occasion ture, and video games—making us care of holding a nation...

The Fantasy Man (August 2006)

Article The Fantasy Man The Strange Brilliance of John Crowley Suzanne Keen W hen I was nineteen, I bought a paperback copy of John Crowley's Little, Big in an English bookstore. I had been...

TO STAY OR TO LEAVE? (September 2003)

TO STAY OR TO LEAVE? Two responses to the sexual-abuse scandal Suzanne Keen On the end, I left the Catholic Church out of love for my son, not out of the anger I had for so long felt and...

A Stay against Confusion (July 2001)

GETTING TO TRUTH BY LYING A Stay against Confusion Essays on Faith and Fiction Ron Hanscn Hurii-rCvllim, $25, 288 pp. Suzanne Keen Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) remains one...

Peter Ackroyd & Catholic England (November 2000)

PETER ACKROYD & CATHOLIC ENGLAND At present, living in the past Suzanne Keen I prefer the city in darkness; it reveals its true nature to me then, so many postmodern...

While I Was Gone (September 1999)

THE BAD WOLF RETURNS White I Was Gone A Novel Sue Millet Suzanne Keen Ever since Victorian novelists made realistic fiction into a serious form for the study of imagined lives and their...

The Bird Catcher (September 1998)

Words take f l i g h t Suzanne Keen ~ ead over time, a journal like Commonweal begins to feel like a friend, known well enough to be praised and abused, missed when it goes away over the summer...

Other Powers (September 1998)

Victoria's secret Suzanne Keen ~ eaders interested in absorbing a portrait of an age through the agreeable medium of a group biography will relish this book. The fascinating as well as...

Summer reading Books for the beach, cottage, couch, and brain (June 1997)

Summer reading Suzanne Keen Suzanne Keen writes frequently for Com-monweal and teaches English literature at Washington and Lee University in Lex-ington, Virginia. In this season of...

Dr America by James T Fisher (May 1997)

OUT OF ONE, MANY Dr. America The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-61 James T. Fisher Suzanne Keen I am perhaps uniquely i11-qualified to review Dr. Amer- ica, for I know the author, but not the...

The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (October 1996)

IRISH TROUBLES The Woman Who Walked into Doors Roddy Doyle Viking. $22.95,226 pp. Suzanne Keen I have read each of Roddy Doyle's novels (The Commitments [1988], The Snapper [1990], The Van...

CATCHING THE HEART OFF GUARD Seamus Heaney reinvents air, light, water, swans (May 1996)

CATCHING THE HEART OFF GUARD The generous vision of Seamus Heaney Suzanne Keen Seamus Heaney in the college cafeteria line at Harvard: The woman serving holds her scoop aloft. "Pasta or potatoes?"...

The Diaries of Dawn Powell edited by Tim Page (February 1996)

A WRITER'S LONG LAMENT The Diaries of Dawn Powell Edited and with an introduction by Tim Page Steerforth Press, $32,512 pp. Suzanne Keen The author of fifteen novels, including the recently...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr A corporate horror story, well told (November 1995)

BOOKS The stench of Woburn On A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr has written a gripping and engrossing book that reads like a novel, but commands attention in the way that only the very best nonfiction...

VOX POPULI Beware the counsel of the pious (September 1995)

Suzanne Keen The relation of two amorphous entities- Catholicism and popular culture-cannot be reasonably understood in units larger than the individual person. For if we can sometimes agree about...

Robert Louis Stevenson, by Frank McLynn: (May 1995)

STEVENSON TRANSMOGRIFIED ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Biography Frank McLynn Random House, $30, 567 pp. Suzanne Keen Robert Louis Stevenson had a brief but fascinat-ing life (1850-94). The son of...

Critics' choices for Christmas (December 1994)

BOOKS Critics1 choices for Christmas Sara Naitland Sara Maitland, a novelist and theologian, lives in Kettering, England. Her most recent novel is Ancestral Truths (Henry Holt). asily the...

Chapters into Verse, assembled and edited by Robert Atwan and Laurance Wieder (March 1994)

Sentenced for life? Here's the book to take Imagine that you are to be confined indefinitely—perhaps for life— and you may take one book along. What will it be? Shakespeare? The Bible? I love...

Ironies & inversions (February 1994)

IRONIES & INVERSIONS THE ART OF ANTHONY BURGESS SUZANNE KEEN In one of Anthony Burgess's (1917-1993) many comic novels, One Hand Clapping (1972), a woman observes her husband answering quiz...

The Museum of Clear Ideas: (September 1993)

BOOKS A poke over the wall Donald Hall's new book of THE MUSEUM OF CLEAR IDEAS on their characteristic relations to time...

The Top 500 Poems (May 1993)

Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War, by Michael bombs and exploding gas tanks. These, plus postwar ac- Kelly, Random House, $23, 354 pp. ...

Seeing Things/The Never-Ending Story/Covenant (February 1993)

tion is not subject to any moral censure. The anatomy of human love hangs on versa). For whatever it is worth, when hu- Which is, of course, the point of the reason's...

Beginning with My Streets/Provinces: Poems 1987-1991/The Collected Poems 1931-1987 (November 1992)

Hughes, again--unlike most academ- ic critics--is a working writer, and the THE POET'S GEOGRAPHY toughness of that role also informs his read- ing. The "tragic equation"--a phrase he uses maybe...

The Gates of Ivory (August 1992)

Miss Porntip sends flowers In The Gates of Ivory, Margaret Drabble brings to a satisfying close her three-volume diagnosis of England's contemporary condition. The project began with Liz and...

The Best American Poetry 1991 (March 1992)

I HEAR AMERICA RHYMING THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1991 Mark Strand, Editor Collier Books, $12.95, 326 pp. Suzanne Keen he Best American Poetry has become one of autumn's events. Since a...

Keenan, Edward P.

Keenan, Francis J.

Keenan, James F

Keenan, James F.

Keenan, John J.

KEENAN, SISTER ROSE CATHERINE

Keene, Donald

Kehoe, Robert L. III

Keidel, John

Keifer, Ralph A

Keifer, Ralph A.

KEIGHTLEY, GEORGIA M.