Catherine Eisner
Monday, 25 January 2016
Satirical and satyrical, extramural and intramural studies: Alexis Lykiard’s ‘Schooled For Life’.
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One’s first impulse on reading Alexis Lykiard’s latest verse collection, Schooled For Life , is to adapt Wilhelm Busch’s famous dictum Ist...
Saturday, 23 January 2016
Stoneburgh Spy Campus . . . B.A.R. . . . ‘Please Burn After Reading’ Rubs Out Accountability of Command. (Part 6.)
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Earlier this week, passing through the parklands of Stoneburgh in the bright winter sunlight, under a cloudless sky, I was reminded of a for...
Thursday, 10 December 2015
‘Carol’ . . . In the Heat of the Moment and Other Febrile Automata
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How curious to read that the genesis of Carol (the current acclaimed movie adapted from the famously transgressive novel, The Price of Salt,...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Take One Home for the Kiddies: More Palimpsestic Wordplay? (Part 3.)
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As an archivist or – more grandly – a conservator I am quite hopeless. In the poetry cuttings book I compiled in my early teens, mould grow...
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Michael Haneke’s Amour: Throwing a Wrench into French Plumbing and . . . La Nouvelle Vague
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‘No health without hygiene’ would seem an admirable sentiment for plombiers parisiens were it not for the paradox spawned by a nation o...
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