It's the most ancient cliche of art-criticism to say, about some painted or sculpted figure, that it is so life-like you'd swear it almost moved or breathed or spoke. You can find the formula repeated in art-writing from antiquity to the renaissance. But nowadays...

Last year I adapted a book by P.G. Wodehouse for the screen, and it was sold to a film company which was on the point of making it. Or, so I believed for a short while. Sadly, the deal fell through and the film...

I find animals problematic. I do not underestimate their aesthetic value, and while on occasion I have expressed enthusiasm for certain species—some equine breeds, some birds, a reptile or two—I mostly don’t experience the sort of thing people describe as a real interspecies connection. I...

Fitts was an American poet, critic, and translator. In the following review, he calls Waugh's novel Vile Bodies a "failure," noting that the use of satire is heavy-handed and derivative.