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D J Taylor

Articles by D J Taylor

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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

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?

Back in print

  • 06 March 2000

Life in the Palace
Carol Birch Virago, 248pp, £6.99
ISBN 1860496881

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

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