Old Times

Author	R.C. Sherriff
ISBN	0435232908

Journey's End is considered a classic of First World War literature now, but at the time, it was rejected by almost every producer in the West End (‘How can I put on a play with no leading lady?’ one manager complained, providing Sherriff with the title to his future autobiography). It finally...

Author	Caryl Churchill
ISBN	0413554805

Now this is one dinner party I would have loved to participate in, shame it was a women's only affair. I guess playing the waiter would come a close second, just so I could overhear the conversation on offer between six charming ladies, five of which return from history.

There is the host of course,...

Author	Penelope Mortimer
ISBN	0747518874

4.5 stars rounded up
I must admit I haven’t read anything by Mortimer before and on the evidence of this book I should have. It is about a woman in a downward spiral and is an acerbic and humorous (in a very bleak way) comment on marriage, gender relations and being a woman being controlled by men (husbands...

Author	Pauline Kael
ISBN	0805013679

She writes reviews that are alternatively scathing or hilarious, and often completely unpredictable. I do not remember when I first encountered her reviews, but once I did I was hooked. It is impossible to predict what she'll say about a movie. For example, a few first lines:

Man of La Mancha...

Author	Pauline Kael
ISBN	1598531093

"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a generation,...

Author	Jean Genet
ISBN	2070412814

Genet a choisi comme personnages « Les Bonnes ». Au début de la pièce, deux sueurs, Claire et Solange, seules dans la chambre de Madame, « d'une dame un peu cocotte et un peu bourgeoise » , pendant son absence, jouent pour elles, et entre elles, des variations sur le thème des Bonnes et de Madame....

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Νικήτας Μ. Παπακώστας

«Έσφιξε τον κόμπο καλά. Έβαλε διπλή και τριπλή σακούλα, έκανε κι άλλους κόμπους, να μη μπορέσουν να το σκάσουν. Πώς νά ’βγαιναν άλλωστε; Δεν είχαν νύχια,...