The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University



Reviews of:

On Thomas Merton

File#TitleFirst LineRev.AuthorCitationYear
01 This brilliant, incisive work from biographerNo Author Listed 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
11Deconstructing Thomas Merton… Through The Prism of Mary GordonIn her book On Thomas Merton, Mary Gordon admits that for years Merton’s writing did not resonate with herClarke, Sabina Irish Edition. (September 2021).
2021.
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 Peter 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