New Statesman - <![CDATA[A S Byatt]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/a_s_byatt en <![CDATA[The dying animal]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200604240034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200604240034 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt In the post-religious world of Philip Roth's fiction, humans do not have immortal souls. Death and desire is all we are. A S Byatt on a brief and bleak morality tale for our times Everyman Philip Roth Jonathan Cape, 182pp, £10 ISBN 0224078690

]]> <![CDATA[Dreams and reality. J M Barrie is often seen as a man in pursuit of an impossible eternal childhood. Yet what is most striking about his life is not the Peter Pan fantasies, but the series of real deaths that shaped it. By A S Byatt]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200507110043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200507110043 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Hide-and-Seek With Angels: a life of J M Barrie Lisa Chaney Hutchinson, 402pp, £20 ISBN 0091795397

]]> <![CDATA[A small person's paradise. Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for The Secret Garden, but she was also a prolific author of novels and plays for adults. A S Byatt on a writer whose remarkable life was spent recreating her own mythologised childhood self and her idealised dead son]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200404190040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200404190040 Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Frances Hodgson Burnett Gretchen Gerzina Chatto & Windus, 359pp, £20 ISBN 0701168927

]]> <![CDATA[Forgotten favourites - The wrong side of Paris. For Henry James, Balzac was the indisputable master. A S Byatt on why this visionary is not as vast and unapproachable as he seems]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200312010038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200312010038 Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine Translated by Jordan Stump Modern Library Classics, 272pp, £14.95 ISBN 2070370569

]]> <![CDATA[The one bright book of life]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160066 http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160066 Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Once revered as a "great genius of our time", D H Lawrence has today become something of a national joke. A S Byatt defends the ambition and vision of a writer considered increasingly unworthy of being taught at our universities

]]> <![CDATA[Pursued by furies. Once condemned to death for treason, Dostoevsky eventually became Russia's national prophet. A S Byatt on an "unrepeatably individual, tormented and brilliant life"]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200209160042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200209160042 Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881 Joseph Frank Robson Books, 784pp, £29.95 ISBN 0691086656

]]> <![CDATA[Painted faces]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200112030033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200112030033 Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt In her own novels, A S Byatt has often evoked the power of portraits. Here, she examines the relationship between writers' and artists' images

]]> <![CDATA[Only connect. A S Byatt admires a novel that explores the simultaneous memory and forgetting of modern Germany]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200110150043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200110150043 Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Austerlitz W G Sebald Hamish Hamilton, 432pp, £16.99 ISBN 0241141257

]]> <![CDATA[Oh lord, where are you? In her new work, Muriel Spark imagines what became of Lord Lucan after he disappeared. A S Byatt on the pure wickedness of one of Britain's most respected living novelists]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200009110040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200009110040 Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Aiding and Abetting Muriel Spark Viking, 182pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670894281

]]> <![CDATA[Strange and charmed]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200004100041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200004100041 Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT A S Byatt Science is changing our moral world. But, writes A S Byatt, it is also altering the visual landscape, as artists respond to its discoveries and challenges

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