Christopher Isherwood

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Less Than Zero vs. A Single Man (Lost Souls Regional Final)

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups If you're looking for s ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: A Single Man vs. Golden Days, Round 2

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading check out: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The battle b ... More >>

John Rabe and Julian Bermudez: Radio Host and Art Curator Are a Private Couple in the Public Eye

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here John Rabe, 46, and Julian Bermudez, 38, met at the close of a sunny day in Malibu in 2001, when separate afternoons spent sunbathing on the shores of El Matador beach led both to the Friendship on West Channel Road. The nautical-themed watering hole, on ... More >>

Waugh's Angeles

Reviews of A Widow of No Importance; The Vault: Unlocked; The Stories of Isaac Leib Peretz; and more . . .

Hector Cruz Salvador"The Vault: Unlocked"​"The gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is a sinister metamorphosis engineered by spoiled hipsters and well-heeled land grabbers in this whodunit parody by the Latino Theatre Company," writes Amy Lyons about The Vault: Unlocked, at Los Angeles Theatre ... More >>

HOORAY FOR ISHERWOOD

Colin Firth: a Single Character

By George, British actor almost didn't get the role of a lifetime

A VISIBLE MAN

Christopher Isherwood, out of the closet

Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored

Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more

ENCHANTREUSE

Fear Itself: D.C. and Hollywood In and Out of the Closet

Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved

L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life

Chris & Don: Opposites Attract

New documentary paints a portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)

I Am a Diary

Excerpts from Christopher Isherwood's journal

Coming to America

Isherwood and Auden in the new world

Love & Frustration

At 25, Outfest is older, but not necessarily wiser

The U.K. in L.A.

or, How to be Cary Grant

Paintings With Friends

Unchain Your Heart

Bookstores for the independent-minded book lover

The Isherwood Equation

Peter Parker’s massive biography considers the life, the literature and Los Angeles

Agent Provocateur

Graham Greene’s centenary on the page and on the screen

A Think Tank for Gays

The Williams Project is at the center of sexual-orientation law

Re-Germinated

Hollywood Splendor

Gavin Lambert on Natalie Wood, Vivian Leigh and the meaning of stardom

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

L. A. Flaw

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Flight Patterns

Walter Kirn’s Up in the Air

Self-Realization

Bob Flanagan, Chris Kraus, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy

The Short Story

New and old fiction from Francesca Lia Block, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ronald Alexander and Theodore Sturgeon

Wholly Jane

Jane Campion on her new movie and other mysteries

Ask the Auden Expert

Edward Mendelson on the poet's later years

King Leer

Mendes' Cabaret comes to L.A.

1986 Timeline

The Trip