Sheed in 'Commonweal'

A selection of articles written by the late Wilfrid Sheed

By Commonweal

January 21, 2011

Growing Up Catholic, February 26, 1965

A Guide to Hatchet Jobs, March 6, 1964

William Buckley's Several Selves, November 4, 1988

The Author as Fiction (on Hemingway), September 6, 1963

Mr. Wilson & the Cold War (on Edmund Wilson), January 10, 1964

Christian Gentlemen: A Chapter of 'Commonweal' History, November 5, 2004

Holmes at Home (on Malcolm Muggeridge & Baker Street), March 26, 1965

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