The ‘Catholic agnostic’ novelist: How Graham Greene questioned his way to God

The ‘Catholic agnostic novelist How Graham Greene questioned his way

Readers of our March print issue may have seen Franklin Freeman’s excellent review of Michael Mewshaw’s new memoir of a complicated friendship with Graham Greene, My Man in Antibes. Because we have a running joke at America that no word uttered by Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Graham Greene or Bruce Springsteen (or, these days, Jason … Read more

Review: The ins and outs of a friendship with Graham Greene

Review The ins and outs of a friendship with Graham

Michael Mewshaw’s My Man in Antibes is an entertaining, moving memoir, spiced with intriguing literary anecdotes about his sometimes fraught friendship with Graham Greene. (It seems anyone who knew Greene had a fraught relationship with him.) It calls to mind two other books about Greene: The Man Within My Head, by Pico Iyer, and Greene … Read more

Graham Greene visitó al Padre Pío y vio sus estigmas, pero no quiso hablar con él: temió convertirse

Graham Greene visito al Padre Pio y vio sus estigmas

El escritor Graham Greene (1904-1991) solía definirse como “católico agnóstico” o incluso como “católico ateo”. Un reflejo de sus contradicciones y de su fe atormentada es su obra maestra, El poder y la gloria (1940), un homenaje al valor intrínseco de los sacramentos a través de la historia de un sacerdote que, en el contexto … Read more

Tom Hanks shares his most embarrassing career moment on Graham Norton Show

Tom Hanks shares his most embarrassing career moment on Graham

Tom Hanks has revealed what he believes to be the most “stupid” moment in his three-decade career. The Oscar-winning actor has been a Hollywood star since the late 1980s, starring in films ranging fromBig and Forrest Gump through to Saving Private Ryan and Elvis. Hanks reflected on his career during an interview on The Graham … Read more

Graham Greene, the third man. – LOFF. IT

Graham Greene the third man LOFF IT

He was a successful writer from his first novel and that was probably the reason why he did not receive the award. Nobel Prize for Literature; he was also a journalist and screenwriter and the truth is that, beyond his novels, films like the third man -starring Orsol Wells-, The Confidential Agent -with Lauren Bacall– … Read more

Woe to the wretched Maling! – Graham Greene – English Tales

Woe to the wretched Maling Graham Greene English

Graham Greene From PHOTO: FORTEPAN / Magyar Hírek folyóirat, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51008046 Download pdf Download ePUB Poor harmless and ineffective Maling! I do not mean for Maling and his borborygmia to be laughed at, as the doctors smiled when I consulted them, as they must have smiled even after the sad climax of September … Read more