Articles By Catherine Brown
December 2017 / January 2018
By making fun of pure evil, Armando Iannucci’s film has polarised opinion in Britain. But it deserves to be seen — especially in Russia
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September 2017
It is a fact that a high proportion of unreliable narrators of novels are intelligent, arrogant, badly-behaved, young males.
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June 2017
The Durrells' Anglo-Greek love affair — and Catherine Brown's
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December/January 2016/17
John Stubbs's biography defends Jonathan Swift from charges of irreverence and misanthropy, and evokes the roughness of his times
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May 2016
L.S. Hilton's Maestra is a spectacular act of revenge on the English upper class and on men
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December 2015
"English writers have fallen out of love with marriage, and I shared their scepticism — until now."
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October 2015
On the set of the BBC’s recent adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, I realised that his most controversial book is as important as ever
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January/February 2015
The book is beautifully done, but it is long and feels uneven
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November 2014
Leo Tolstoy's study of adultery is widely thought of as a romantic work. But don't send it to your lover
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About Catherine Brown
Catherine Brown is Convenor and Senior Lecturer of English at the New College of the Humanities and author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare (Legenda).
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