Born Elizabeth Forbes in 1912, he lived as a boy/man and had the gender on his birth certificate altered in order to marry. When his older brother died in 1965, his cousin contested Ewan's i... read more
A haunting glimpse of the officers and sailors of the Erebus and the Terror on their ill-fated expedition, and of the hopes and fears of their colleagues and families when the Erebus softly ... read more
The role of surrealism and the cultural milieu of Paris in the 1940s helped inspire Boulez's emotional and radical music. CP's last book - on Eric Satie - was excellent.