Instead of a Critic

This is my new volume of essays. 

From the cover blurb:

"Instead of a Critic brings together pieces written over twenty years or so in search of whatever links them. The topics range from Anglo-German cultural relations and the refugee flight from Nazi Europe to myth, pictorial art and the ‘Two Cultures’ question. It touches on performance, whether in cinema, dance, ‘straight’ theatre or the American Musical. Above all, it expresses an enthusiasm for literature and what literature can do."

Instead of a Critic: Essays Written and Unwritten (Minos Press, 2022).

ISBN-13: ‎978-1739632205

Available from Amazon UK, Amazon US and other retailers. 

Table of Contents:

Introduction                                                             

Aldous Huxley: Between Art and Science              

Rupert Brooke                                                        

Bloomsbury                                                            

Rosamond Lehmann                                              

Katherine Mansfield and Germany                      

Kafka: The Significance of Clothes                        

Franziska zu Reventlow                                        

Rilke and Cézanne                                                 

On Translating Poetry                                           

Three Poems by Hofmannsthal                             

Hofmannsthals in Exile                                         

Egon Wellesz                                                         

The Gender of Mr W. S.                                          

Nancy Cunard Sees Josephine Baker                  

Hedy Lamarr                                                       

Louise Brooks                                                      

Wedekind in English                                           

Sondheim at 90                                                    

Mitford Connections                                           

Myth: Its Manufacture and Recovery                  

Blood for the Ghosts                                            

Newton and Supermac                                        

The Two Cultures

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