Catherine Eisner

At the beginning of January 2012, I wrote to the editor of Private Eye to comment on their traditional New Year log-rolling* feature, which...

Although the Daily Telegraph’ s well-observed obituary (February 4, 2012) of Dorothea Tanning , the surrealist, pointed up her sense of ill...

Amateur Literary Sleuthing Unpursued (Part 1) Talking of Marianne Moore (who was first published by H.D., the Imagiste wife of Richard Al...

He wrote in his notebook, "How delightful on a bright, frosty day when a new sleigh with a rug comes to the door."      The Gener...

A long lost crime novel by Chekhov surfacing in the 21st Century? Not possible, you say! Yet Chekhov, himself, referred to such a work in pr...

In the centennial of Chekhov's death, I wrote the following essay (published in the Jewish Chronicle , December 24 2004) in which I iden...

Can punctuation, as well as poetry, provide a critical plot twist in my fiction? Well. Yes. Remember, Roger Casement, the Irish nationalis...