Catherine Eisner

I’m just completing Sybille Bedford’s thoughtful biography of Aldous Huxley (volume two) in which she moralises on the question of Huxley...

My last post raises the question of Nobel prize-winners with feet of clay boosted to stand on the adamantine shoulders of giants. http://ca...

Let me be quite clear. I consider Harold Pinter a misogynistic writer who has never written a gender-affirming dramatic part for a woman (un...

Fish and guests smell at three days old , Anton Chekhov mused.     In truth, that year at Madame Lintvaryova’s country villa in the Ukrai...

I have often thought that there must exist any number of recordings gathering dust made by those ‘great dictators’, the famous novelists o...