From 1936 to 1987, this paper provided Graham Greene with an occasional forum for his works-in-progress, including a series of dispatches from a trip in the late 1930s which was to inspire one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory “There is a mystery,” Graham Greene told The Tablet in 1989, two years before he died. “There is something inexplicable in human life.” Greene first contributed to The Tablet in 1936 under the editorship of the portly Douglas Woodruff, an acquaintance of Evelyn Waugh and Hilaire Belloc. As a leftist, Greene’s position at The Tablet was politically somewhat awkward. In the received notion, any Englishman who was openly anti-Fascist in the 1930s was assumed to be anti-Catholic and in favour of the Spanish Republic. Yet Gree