Letter
The Pope Speaks
1 November 2001
Lordly though Denis Donoghue may sometimes be, the phrase ‘Papa locutus est’ should have appeared outside, not inside, quotation marks in the passage I cited from his book Words Alone (LRB, 1 November).
David Wheatley
David Wheatley’s first novel, Stretto, will be published later this year.
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