...Greene simply isn't all that good a letter-writer. In the novels his prose has always been somewhat drab, befitting his often doleful subject matter, but that plainness can be readily overlooked because of the cinematic vividness of his scene-setting and the lived intensity of his characters.
--Michael Dirda, The Man Within, The Weekly Standard, May 4, 2009, review of
Graham Greene: A Life in Letters, edited by Richard Greene
(via Arts & Letters Daily)Featured Authors: Graham Greene, The New York Times, October 17, 2004
The Legacy, Posted by: Diogenes - Nov. 23, 2007 8:49 AM ET USA, Off the Record
Graham Greene, uneasy Catholic, by Ian Thomson, Times, London, August 22, 2006
Essential Graham Greene, review by Ed Conroy: Norman Sherry lays bare the 'agnostic Catholic' writer, National Catholic Reporter, November 19, 2004
Graham Greene Biography, Heavy on Sex, Draws Some Outrage, review by Dinitia Smith, New York Times, November 4, 2004
Greene at 100, review by Bernard Bergonzi of The Life of Graham Greene, Volume III: 1956-1991, by Norman Sherry, and In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene, by Yvonne Cloetta, as told to Marie-Françoise Allain, translated by Euan Cameron, Commonweal, October 22, 2004
Review by George Walden of The Life of Graham Greene: volume three (1955-1991), by Norman Sherry, New Statesman, October 18, 2004
Damned Old Graham Greene, by Paul Theroux, New York Times, October 17, 2004
Sinner Take All: Graham Greene's Damned Redemption, review by Matthew Price of The Life of Graham Greene (3 vol.), by Norman Sherry BookForum, October/November 2004
Graham Greene: Greene has fallen from grace. Yet his worldliness remains a model for the practising writer, by Julian Evans, Prospect, September 2004
Short Cuts column, by Thomas Jones, London Review of Books, November 14, 2002
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene, by Robert Royal, First Things, November 1999