Catherine Brown

No 2 NATO, No 2 War

No 2 NATO, No 2 War

  On 25th February 2023 I attended a speaker meeting in London criticising what it considered NATO’s and the US’s...

D. H. Lawrence: Icon

D. H. Lawrence: Icon

  The following is the pre-edited version of my chapter in The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the...

Sex in Literature

Sex in Literature

Watch podcast.   This lecture, given in June 2015 at the How The Light Gets In (Institute of Arts and Ideas)...

On going vegan

On going vegan

  The following was written as an open letter to be read out to an initial meeting of the 'Vegan Info and Social...

Ambiguous Words

Ambiguous Words

I have decided to start a series of Tweets containing glosses on (to me) interestingly ambiguous words (mainly...

Loveless

Loveless

Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (1964-), Arte France Cinéma, Why Not Productions, released 13.5.2017, 128 minutes.   To...

The Death of Stalin

The Death of Stalin

The Death of Stalin, 2017, dir. Armando Iannucci, adapted by Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin from the French...

Whistlejacket Forever

Whistlejacket Forever

    It’s called a levade, when horses rear in art. He’s an Arab, so it fits - from the land of rising suns....

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  A little while ago I saw the Tricycle Cinema’s live broadcast of the Donmar Warehouse’s production of...

The Master Builder

The Master Builder

23rd January – 19th March 2016 The Old Vic, directed by Matthew Warchus     London has form with Ibsen’s...

SPECTRE

SPECTRE

2015, 148 minutes, dir. Sam Mendes     As a big fan of James Bond and a moderate fan of Daniel Craig, I was...

Two Ways of Seeing Things

Two Ways of Seeing Things

Maya Plisetskaya in the 1974 Russian Anna Karenina   ‘Видите ли, на одну и ту же вещь можно смотреть трагически и...

Marriage a la Mode

Marriage a la Mode

This article was published by the December 2015 edition of Standpoint magazine here. What follows is a pre-edited...

Cambridge Revisited

Cambridge Revisited

  It’s a whole genre of experience, revisiting your university town after a gap of years.   Last weekend I...

Reader, I married him

Reader, I married him

This article is a pre-edited version of an article published here in the October 2015 edition of Literary Review....

On Friendship

On Friendship

As today is the name’s day of a friend, I am reflecting on friendship.   Friend is often betrayed when...

Twelfth Week Sextet

Twelfth Week Sextet

Written, produced, directed and acted by students of Bedfellows - the New College of the Humanities Drama Society -...

A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge

  Wyndham’s Theatre, West End, transferred from the Young Vic where it played in 2014; running until 11th April...

Banya No. 1

Banya No. 1

  London has a banya. I stumbled across it in an advert, although it has apparently existed since 2013. On...

The Narrator Part 2

Watch podcast In the second half of this short introduction to Narrators I consider some of the complexities that can...

The Narrator Part 1

Watch podcast. This is a brief introduction to the concept of the 'Narrator' in literature. In this first of its two...

D.H. Lawrence and Women

D.H. Lawrence and Women

 Three women who loved Lawrence Dorothy Brett, Frieda Lawrence, Mabel Dodge Luhan 1938, New Mexico A couple of years...

Helen Bamber

Helen Bamber

  Helen Bamber died two days ago. She was a founder member of Amnesty International, co-founder of The Medical...

Reading

Watch Podcast When we 'read' a book, a lecture, a situation, or a face, are we doing the same thing? How much do these...

Chapters

Chapters

Watch Podcast Chapters are deep in the structure of most prose works, doing much of the supporting and some of the...

Unreliable Narrators

Unreliable Narrators

Watch Podcast Narrators are almost all we have to go on – so how can we know when they are being unreliable? This...

Realism

Realism

Listen to Podcast This lecture tackles head-on the issue of what 'realism' is - or rather, how the term has been used...

Multiple Plotting

Multiple Plotting

Watch Podcast What does it mean for a novel to be multi-plotted? Does not a novel has as many plots as characters? And...

Shunga in the City

Shunga in the City

Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art 3rd October 2013 – 5th January 2014 British Museum I have only twice felt...

The American Plan

The American Plan

    2nd July - 10th August 2013 St James Theatre, London Theatre Royal Bath production Playwright Richard...

Skyfall

Skyfall

Dir. Sam Mendes, 2012 ‘Skyfall.’ ‘Done.’ So I reflected yesterday evening as I left the cinema, having finally got...

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