Christopher Isherwood

Dec 8, 2024 | lesen.de | Stuart Nadler |Richard Ford |Ali Smith |Christopher Isherwood

In the summer of 1938, Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She leaves behind her parents, Fania and Arnold, and her baby brother Moses. She is the only member of her family to survive. In 1966 Fania is working as a massage therapist in Montreal, a country that provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the second world war. And yet there are strange echoes, impressions, of those she loves everwhere she turns.

Jun 9, 2023 | thelondonmagazine.org | Christopher Isherwood |Kay Ryan |Julia Armfield |Brendan Behan’s

Staff Picks for Pride MonthIn celebration of Pride Month, the team at The London Magazine wanted to share our favourite reads and authors which have furthered our understanding of the queer experience. Each of this month’s picks has provided insight into the social or political discussions surrounding LGBTQ+ identity. As a body, the list blends celebration of queerness with exasperation at its oppression, both past and present, in an eclectic, vibrant portrait of the LGBTQ+ community.

Jun 8, 2023 | churchtimes.co.uk | Christopher Isherwood

“IT’S like we’re there, in Akenfield,” a walker declares, mustering cheer as she gingerly steps across the swamp that has spread across the path. We are, in fact, on Hampstead Heath, in north-west London, and the walker is wearing trainers ill-suited to life off the pavement. Aside from the mud, it is a world away from Akenfield — the name that Ronald Blythe gave to his fictionalised Suffolk village in his revolutionary 1968 book of the same name.