Though it downplays unflattering details, Katherine Bucknell’s big biography hails the 20th-century writer as an early advocate for the “chosen family.” By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," is one of the most celebrated opening lines in a 20th-century novel, but it's also a mission statement by its author ...
“Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out” is an insightful biography of the prolific English writer, author of “Goodbye to Berlin” (the inspiration behind “Cabaret”), “A Single Man,” and “Christopher and ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD INSIDE OUT. By Katherine Bucknell. FSG. 864 pages. $45. Christopher Isherwood is probably better known for two film adaptations of his work rather than the work that inspired the ...