In the four most productive years of Thomas Aquinas rsquo life the man produced the equivalent of two or three average-length novels every month For all the words he wrote however an immense silence lies at the heart of Thomas There is of course the silence of the Summa which he left unfini
In the October 20, 1928 issue of America, the editors of the magazine inaugurated the Catholic Book Club with the following notice:[T]he Catholic Book announces that it has selected “The Way It Was with Them” by Peadar O’Donnell, as the outstanding Catholic novel of the month.
I recently traveled to the London Book Fair, and I stayed in Bloomsbury, the area in central London that over half a century ago was the heart of British publishing. Over the course of four days I visited the crisp and well-appointed London Review of Books bookshop across from the British Museum, as
"My job is to make what happens within the story convincing and accurate and compelling and believable – and if I am a decent observer of human nature and the world, all theological ideas can find a home here."