D J Taylor
Articles by D J Taylor
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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
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
