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1 day ago · Episode 451. 00:00 01:00. The twentieth-century author Christopher Isherwood, made famous by his 1930s work in Berlin, approached his writing about queerness, politics and religion with frankness and wit. The writer repeatedly fictionalised himself and his friends in his novels. Katherine Bucknell, the editor of four volumes of Isherwood’s ...
19 hours ago · Christopher Isherwood's "Third-class Ticket" explores the journey of 44 villagers through India. The documentary captures their experiences traveling in the 1960s when many were unfamiliar with the destinations. This period piece provides valuable insight into Indian customs and culture as seen through the eyes of ordinary villagers.
19 hours ago · In the second part of the Turning 60 in ‘24 miniseries, today’s Stop is a selection of books published in 1964. It was a remarkable year for literature - Saul Bellow’s Herzog, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man and Arthur Miller’s After the Fall all come to mind - but there were, of course, many others.
1 day ago · Katherine Bucknell edited all four volumes of Christopher Isherwood's Diaries, a volume of letters between Christopher Isherwood and his partner Don Bachardy (The Animals), and W.H. Auden's Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Co-editor of Auden Studies, a founder of The W. H. Auden Society, and director of the Christopher…
1 day ago · Edmund White, Christopher Isherwood and James Baldwin were very influential in the final few months of getting what ultimately is the version (of the book) that is now out in the world. But then, of course – someone like Alan Hollinghurst is just such a masterful storyteller in the different aspects of society he covers through a queer lens, through a queer male perspective.
3 days ago · This story includes spoilers for Ti West’s MaXXXine, as well as the previous two installments in the trilogy, X and Pearl.. In Goodbye to Berlin, the 1939 autofictional novel that would serve as the source material for the Oscar-winning film Cabaret, Christopher Isherwood wrote, “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
2 days ago · Set in 1940s New York, The Voice of the Turtle is evocative of the era, while at the same holding a mirror to the clandestine sexual revolution in wartime America. Written by John Van Druten (who adapted the Christopher Isherwood's short stories about Berlin that became the basis of Cabaret) The Voice of the Turtle…
