Catherine Eisner

A recent fiction of mine ( Darkly, More is Seen , Spring Issue of Ambit 212) considers infidelity in lovers as an unstoppable force of natu...

I’ve just heard that Joan Smith is augmenting her brilliant early broadside, Misogynies (Faber 1996) with her new The Public Wo man (Westbo...

I see I drew a moral in my last post. Here’s another moral drawn; again by Mrs Stock-Engländer , the wife of that arch-Englishman, my fath...

So the British prime minister pronounces, ‘We are all Thatcherites now.’ Here, surely, is a species of Doublespeak parrote d by the chatt...

Last night, reading for the first time that classic of prison literature, Die Zelle , by a distant kinsman of mine, Horst Bienek, I stumbled...

Sometime late in 2007 there was a call for learned papers on the aesthetics and putative authorship (thought to be Oscar Wilde) of Teleny, o...

The daughter of a maid, like the wife of a bachelor, is well taught .   This old English saying about illegitimacy (and common law...