D J Taylor

Life & Society

Diary - D J Taylor

• 06 February 2006

The glory days of the Captain Scott Invitation XI have been recorded for posterity. But what's scary about remembering old times is finding out how much you've forgotten

Books

The limits of liberalism

• 26 September 2005

Faculty Towers: the academic novel and its discontents
Elaine Showalter Oxford University Press, 166pp, £12.99
ISBN 019928332X

Books

Here we go

• 28 March 2005

Those Feet: a sensual history of English football
David Winner Bloomsbury, 274pp, £14.99
ISBN 0747547386

Life & Society

Foul play

• 13 December 2004

Even when badly written, the beautiful game's literary outpourings hold a sleazy fascination

Books

Forgotten favourites - Working-class hero

• 29 November 2004

Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
A E Coppard Penguin (out of print)
ISBN 014003854X

Diary - D J Taylor

• 02 February 2004

I write to a novelist confessing I was wrong to trash his latest, only to discover he sits on the Whitbread jury. He must think I'm the most hypocritical crawler in literary London

Diary - D J Taylor

• 24 November 2003

I wonder if now is a good time to tell the headmaster about the copies of every novel submitted to the Man Booker Prize that are about to be dumped on his premises

Books

The long road to oblivion

• 16 December 2002

D J Taylor on the life and death of William Cooper, a once celebrated writer whose recent funeral was attended by just 16 people

Society

NS Essay - Artists on an eternal picnic

• 18 November 2002

Bohemians such as George Barker lived in creative chaos on the margins of mainstream society. Are Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst trying to imitate them?

Books

Farewell to the virgin in the garden. A S Byatt has redefined the novel of ideas. D J Taylor on the culmination of a great fictional sequence that maps English intellectual life from the 1950s to the present day

• 26 August 2002

A Whistling Woman
A S Byatt Chatto & Windus, 422pp, £16.99
ISBN 0701173807