Catherine Eisner

I was SO pleased to have a text of mine published this year in the Winter issue of Ambit , particularly as I feared its subject was conten...

I’m ashamed to admit I’ve taken agin a number of writers simply because, unknown to me, like Amundsen at the South Pole, they’ve trumped me ...

My long-held interest in Henry Harland, chameleon-like editor of the The Yellow Book (feigned Russian-born descent) led me to the British ...

What an opportunity lost!  I note, with regret, that last month a wreath of insipid white roses and snowdrops was laid on Charles Dickens...

Twinship is an ever-absorbing phenomenon for me for I can claim to be one of consobrinal (first-cousin) twins.*   I was brought up as the ‘...

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...