Island of the World
Author: Michael D. O’Brien ISBN: 1586172166 Length: 840 pages Edition: Hardcover Island of the World is the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and tracing his...
View ArticleA Quiet Little War
The following is a newsletter sent out to all subscribers in September, 2007, during repeated attacks by “hackers” on StudiObrien. Numerous subscribers did not receive it, and as a result of partial...
View ArticleSign of Contradiction and the new world order
Sign of Contradiction and the new world order by Michael D. O’Brien Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: “This child is destined to be the downfall and the rising of many in Israel, a sign...
View ArticleTheophilos
Though Theophilos is a man of the past ages, he is as familiar to us as the men of our own times. Schooled in the empiricism of both medicine and philosophy, Theophilos is well suited to speak to our...
View ArticleInterview about Theophilos
The Novelist and the Great Story: an interview with Michael D. O’Brien about Theophilos: A Novel Ignatius Insight, April 28, 2010 Ignatius Insight: What was the inspiration for a novel about a man...
View ArticleNovels—overview and sequence
Most of the novels can be read independently of the others. However, the first three listed below are best read in sequence since they deal with the saga of a single family, in order as follows: 1)...
View ArticleThe Father’s Tale
Through the uncertainty and the anguish, the loss and the longing, Graham is pulled into conflicts between nations, as well as the eternal conflict between good and evil. Stretched nearly to the...
View ArticleCankultur at the end of an age
Cankultur at the End of an Age by Michael D. O’Brien I have often reread a paragraph in Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel Prize speech, in which he says: Woe to that nation whose literature is...
View ArticleElijah in Jerusalem
New novel by Michael D. O’Brien: Elijah in Jerusalem is the continuing story of the priest, Fr. Elijah Schäfer. A convert from Judaism, survivor of the Holocaust, he has for decades been a...
View ArticleA Letter to Writers and Artists
An Open Letter to Fellow Artists Michael D. O’Brien Dear Friends I receive a very large number of letters from young Christian painters, writers, and musicians, and ask those of you who have written to...
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