The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University



Reviews of:

On Thomas Merton

File#TitleFirst LineRev.AuthorCitationYear
01 This brilliant, incisive work from biographer  Publishers Weekly 265.41 (October 8, 2018): 56.
2018.
02Writer to WriterThe fascinating premise of MaryHansen, Ron America 220.3 (February 4, 2019): 47.
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2019/01/18/becoming-writer-monk-mary-gordon-thomas-merton
2019.
03Merton's Words, Others' Faith and IceDuring Lent, Trappist Fr. ThomasScharper, Diane National Catholic Reporter 55.9 (February 8-21, 2019): 11.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/environment/books-explore-merton-writer-religion-101-and-antarctic-ice
2019.
04Mary Gordon Illuminates the Literary Works of Thomas MertonMary Gordon — novelist, memoirist, professor of English at Barnard College — hasMahany, Barbara Chicago Tribune (March 7, 2019).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/sc-books-mary-gordon-0220-story.html
2019.
05Shallow Calls to Shallow: On Thomas Merton, Fifty Years After His DeathThe Seven Storey Mountain,Wills, Garry Harper’s Magazine 338.2027 (April 2019): 78-82.
2019.
06Novelist Looks at Writings of Trappist Monk Thomas MertonPerhaps best known for her novels and short stories, Barnard College English professor and New York stateFinley, Mitch CatholicPhilly.Com (June 14, 2019).
http://catholicphilly.com/2019/06/culture/novelist-looks-at-writings-influence-of-trappist-monk-thomas-merton/
2019.
07The Strength of Hyphens: Mary Gordon on Thomas MertonMary Gordon writes writer to writer in her newPorter, J. S. Dialogue Magazine 32.4 (Summer 2019): 43-45.
2019.
08 The genesis of novelist Mary Gordon's widely reviewed new bookO'Connell, Patrick F. American Benedictine Review 71.1 (March 2020): 108-110.
2020.
09 After a lecture on Thomas Merton that Mary Gordon gave atBergfelt, Ted Catholic Library World 91.1 (September 2020): 58.
2020.
10 Mary Gordon’s forays into non-fiction are often extensions of the tensions she explores in her narrators, especially personal encountersCrace, Benjamin D. Reading Religion (April 3, 2019).
https://readingreligion.org/books/thomas-merton
2019.
ANNUAL Professor of English at Barnard College and a successful novelist basedPoks, Malgorzata The Merton Annual 32 (2019): 258-263.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/32/PoksRevGordon258-263.pdf
2019.
JOURNAL What kind of writer was Merton? Award-winning writer and teacher MaryHall, Gary P. The Merton Journal 26.2 (Advent 2019): 44-46.
http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/26/26-2HallRevGordon.pdf
2020.
SEASONALBelated Encouters.As a young adult, I was drawn to Mary Gordon’s novels with their poetic narrative voiceKehoe, Deborah The Merton Seasonal 45.3 (Fall 2020): 23-26.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/45/45-3KehoeRevGordon.pdf
2020.