D J Taylor

Articles by D J Taylor

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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?

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

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?

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?

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

Till death us do part

  • 18 February 2002

Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage Rosemary Ashton Chatto & Windus, 548pp, £25 ISBN 0701167092

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

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

A ventriloquist's tale

  • 08 January 2001

True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Faber and Faber, 350pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571192165

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?

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

Books of the year

Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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