Reviews of Books by and about Thomas Merton

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Books by Merton: 

• The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, Oct.-Nov. ‘73 - [full issue]
• Bread in the Wilderness, Feb. ‘54 - [full issue]
• Emblems of a Season of Fury, May ’64 - [full issue]
• Ishi Means Man: Essays on Native Americans, March-April ‘77 - [full issue]
• The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus, Jul-Aug. ‘54 - [full issue]
• The Monastic Journey, Jan. ‘78 - [full issue]
• No Man Is an Island, May ‘55 - [full issue]
• The Nonviolent Alternative, Sep. ‘80 - [full issue]
• Pasternak/Merton: Six Letters 1958-1960, March-April ‘76 - [full issue]
• Peace in the Post-Christian Era, June-July '05 - [review only]
• The Sign of Jonas, March ‘53 - [full issue]
• Thomas Merton on Peace, May ‘72 - [full issue]
• A Thomas Merton Reader, April ’64 - [full issue]
• Thoughts in Solitude, June ‘58 - [full issue]

Books about Merton: 

• A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin, Oct.-Nov. ‘70 - [full issue]
• Merton and Friends: A Joint Biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax and Edward Rice by James Harford, June-July ‘07 - [review only]
• Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat by Gordon Oyer, Oct.-Nov. '14 - [review only]
• Thomas Merton/Monk: A Monastic Tribute edited by Patrick Hart, Sep. ‘74 - [full issue]
• Thomas Merton, Social Critic: A Study by James T. Baker, Feb. ‘73 - [full issue]
• Thomas Merton: The Man and His Work by Dennis Q. McInerny, Dec. ‘75 - [full issue]