D J Taylor
Articles by D J Taylor
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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
Life & Society
NS Essay - Whatever happened to popular culture?
- 15 July 2002
A generation ago, a man like the Singing Postman, with his authentic folk poetry, could still flourish, as could the self-taught working man. Have Murdoch, EastEnders and Hollywood killed all that?
Books
Left, right, left, right
- 20 May 2002
Orwell has been co-opted to defend almost everything, including the US Star Wars programme and the Falklands war. Is it time to rescue him from his friends?
Society
The New Statesman Essay - They're all middle-class now
- 01 April 2002
People like the BBC chairman have long mocked bourgeois taste and values. But we have bourgeois radicals to thank for social progress, argues D J Taylor
Books
Till death us do part
- 18 February 2002
Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage Rosemary Ashton Chatto & Windus, 548pp, £25 ISBN 0701167092
Books
Pleasing themselves. Clive James, Peter Ackroyd and J M Coetzee are among numerous writers to have published collections of literary journalism this year. But what is the point of such books? Does anyone read them? By D J Taylor
- 17 December 2001
Pleasing Myself Frank Kermode Allen Lane, Penguin Press, £20.00 ISBN 0713995181
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Nationalism? What's that?
- 09 April 2001
John Bull had only a brief life. Wordsworth and Jane Austen didn't know him; Suez killed him off. Hague's bid to revive him is doomed
Books
A ventriloquist's tale
- 08 January 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Faber and Faber, 350pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571192165
Culture
Will they survive?
- 29 May 2000
Literary reputation is hard won, and rarely relinquished without a struggle. We look at how the reputations of some of the 20th century's greatest writers have been secured and protected. Starting with D J Taylor on the Amises, we ask: will they survive?
