D J Taylor
Articles by D J Taylor
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Books
The last writes
- 08 October 2009
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There is neither the money nor the space to sustain a career as a full-time book reviewer. D J Taylor mourns the slow death of the man of letters
Books
Defeat into victory
- 28 May 2009
Orwell’s novels of the 1930s prefigure the horror of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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
