D J Taylor
Articles by D J Taylor
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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?
Books
Back in print
- 06 March 2000
Life in the Palace Carol Birch Virago, 248pp, £6.99 ISBN 1860496881
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
Culture
A novel complaint
- 20 September 1999
Another year, another Booker shortlist. But just how good is British fiction? A decade ago, D J Taylor ruffled literary feathers with his polemic A Vain Conceit. Has time proved him right or wrong?
Books
Small Presses Special - Attic offices, skeleton staff
- 09 April 1999
Over the next two weeks, NS critics will shine a spotlight on the output of small publishers, beginning with D J Taylor's celebration of a new generation of innovative independents
