Patrick Skene Catling

Verse and worse

24 June 2017 9:00 am

Molly Brodak, a fair, young Polish-American born in Michigan, is a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Iowa: that hotbed…

Lessons in sex

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Helen Gurley Brown’s internationally influential career, as the author of Sex and the Single Girl and editor of Cosmopolitan, is…

The axeman cometh

12 August 2016 11:00 pm

All organic beings descended from a single primordial blob, according to Darwin. Some of them developed sufficiently to leave the…

A hero of folk

7 February 2013 2:00 pm

‘This Machine Kills Fascists’ was the ambitious slogan that Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) painted on his guitars. By fascists he meant…

A hero of folk

7 February 2013 2:00 pm

‘This Machine Kills Fascists’ was the ambitious slogan that Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) painted on his guitars. By fascists he meant…

Bookends: Prep-school passions

19 May 2012 10:00 am

In his introductory eulogy, Peter Parker calls In the Making: The Story of a Childhood  (Penguin, £8.99) G. F. Green’s…

Bookends: The Jazz Baroness

20 August 2011 10:00 am

She was born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild. Her father, Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, an ardent lepidopterist, named her Pannonica, Nica for…