| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | Merton Portraits | The apparent contradictions alone are enough to make Thomas Merton a | Briggs, Kenneth A. |
New York Times 134 (20 December 1984): 25.
| 1984 |
| 02 | | Thomas Merton haunts us. He died too soon and left too many questions unanswered. | Leonard, Billy Jim |
Review & Expositor [Louisville] 82 (Summer 1985): 456-457.
| 1985 |
| 03 | | Thomas Merton has fascinated the public ever since his youthful autobiography became a best | Malits, Elena, CSC |
Theology Today 42.3 (October 1985): 406, 408-409.
| 1985 |
| 04 | Two different views of the brilliant Thomas Merton | Although 16 years have passed since a freak accident killed him in | Kenyon, Richard L. |
Milwaukee Journal (20 January 1985): E3.
| 1985 |
| 05 | Bringing Words Out of Silence | In early October, 1948, the firm of Harcourt, Brace in New York | Coles, Robert |
New York Times Book Review (23 December 1984): 1,19.
| 1984 |
| 06 | The Mystifying Monk | The fascination of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and world-famous writer, lies partly in the eternal story of a sinner struggling to be a saint- | Fuller, Edmund |
Wall Street Journal 65 (15 January 1985): 15.
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| 07 | A Solitude That Exploded On the World | Thomas Merton's death left a profound sense of loss. | Hoover, Conrad C. |
Sojourners 14.4 (April 1985): 40-41.
| 1985 |
| 08 | The Burgeoning Merton Industry | A colleague of mine regularly drops off for my perusal the proceedings of a society | Labrie, Ross |
Resources for American Literary Study 15.1 (Spring 1985): 49-59.
| 1985 |
| 09 | A genuine search for God | Thomas Merton enthusiasts and devotees should be very pleased at the appearance of these three books. | Blonigen, Frederick J. |
Reflections… The Wanderer Review of Literature, Culture, The Arts 4.2 (Spring 1985): 7.
| 1985 |
| 10 | The Multifaceted Thomas Merton: Two Books Recall Religious Writer | There are so many Thomas Mertons- the Trappist monk, the poet | Tehan, Arline Boucher |
| no-year |
| 11 | | The author-director-producer of the TV documentary Merton | |
Publishers Weekly (October 19, 1984).
| 1984. |
| SEASONAL | Merton: Talk For A Television Program | This book was not inevitable, but given the fact of a television documentary about Merton | Kramer, Victor A. |
Merton Seasonal 10:2 (Spring 1985): 14-15.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/10/10-2KramerRevWilkes.pdf
| 1985 |