Julian Evans
Articles by Julian Evans
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Books
Fiction - The infinite well
- 23 January 2006
The Successor Ismail Kadare Canongate, 224pp, £9.99 ISBN 1841957631
Books
Fiction - Veiled hatred
- 10 May 2004
Snow Orhan Pamuk Faber & Faber, 436pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571220657
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Fiction - A place to live intensely
- 05 April 2004
Penguin Lost Andrey Kurkov Harvill Press, 256pp, £10.99 ISBN 1843430959
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European fiction - The sadness of the circus
- 16 June 2003
The Half Brother Lars Saabye Christensen Translated by Kenneth Steven Arcadia Books, 782pp, £12.99 ISBN 1900850745
Culture
Platform
- 21 April 2003
W G Sebald, who died in a road accident at the end of 2001, is one of the most acclaimed writers of modern times. But for Julian Evans he is a charlatan and his books are untrue
Books
Platform
- 31 March 2003
Julian Evans on two major Continental writers who knew well the horrors of war but who, because of the conservatism of British publishing, remain unread in this country
Books
Platform
- 10 March 2003
Julian Evans on why British thriller writers of the 1930s, such as Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, offer a far better exploration of the nature of freedom than any other novelists
Culture
Platform
- 03 February 2003
Chekhov attended to reality, not to "issues". We should remember that today when we ponder a little girl's death in east London. The first in a series of occasional columns
Books
Notes towards a supreme fiction
- 16 December 2002
"The reviewing of novels," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the white man's grave of journalism; it corresponds to building bridges in some impossible tropical climate." Julian Evans on David Lodge, Cyril Connolly and the vanishing art of the literary essay
Books
Slave to passion
- 30 September 2002
Pushkin: a biography T J Binyon HarperCollins, 731pp, £30 ISBN 0002150840
