The Tablet was founded in 1840 by a Quaker convert to Catholicism, Frederick Lucas, ten years before the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh were among its contributors. A selection of recent reviews and articles:
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin. Review
A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S.Naipaul. Review
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl. Review
The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murhpy. Review
Amulet by Roberto Bolaño. Review
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: vol 1, 1929-1940. Review
Buccaneers of the Caribbean by Jon Latimer. Review
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis. Review
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball. Review
Brief Lives: Evelyn Waugh by Michael Barber. Review
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. Review
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck by Sarah Helm
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965. Review
Our Man in Mexico: Graham Greene. Article
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. Review