D J Taylor
Articles by D J Taylor
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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
Arts & 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?
Politics
Why I can't take the City seriously
- 08 November 1999
For 13 years D J Taylor worked with corporate heroes and accounting executives. Then he realised that they all talked rubbish and expected him to do the same
