Julian Evans

Articles by Julian Evans

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Endless night

  • 03 June 2002

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel Edited by Nathalie Babel Picador, 1,072pp, £30 ISBN 0330490311

Writing shop Italian

  • 21 January 2002
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Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo, translated by William Weaver Everyman's Library, 437pp, £12.99 ISBN 1857152492

The theft of the truth

  • 05 November 2001

Ukraine is rich in coal and its wheatfields could feed 350 million. So why are most of its people so desperately poor? Julian Evans reports

Shaggy dog story

  • 13 August 2001

Laurence Sterne: a life Ian Campbell Ross Oxford University Press, 512pp, £25 ISBN 0192122355

It's all just meat. Julian Evans declares that eating people is not wrong, after reading a feeble study of cannibalism

  • 02 April 2001

Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes Channel 4 Books, 208pp, £14.99

Little England

  • 05 March 2001

The Comedy Man D J Taylor Duck Editions, 256pp, £9.99 ISBN 0715630598

Melodies of melancholy. Joseph Roth, master elegist of the Hapsburg empire, has been rescued from undeserved neglect. Julian Evans on the lonely wanderer who anticipated the coming Nazi storm.

  • 12 February 2001

The Wandering Jews Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann Granta, 130pp, £12.99 ISBN 1862073929

Against cultural white noise

  • 18 December 2000

Julian Evans attends a symposium organised by a Parisian literary magazine, which wages single-handed war on globalisation and dumbing down

The first postmodern ironist

  • 30 October 2000

We live in a passionless age, wrote the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. That is why he speaks to us today, believes Julian Evans

Appointment in Odessa

  • 11 September 2000

With its mafia dons and Orthodox monks, the capital of Ukraine has an exotic appeal second only to one of its native women

Green heroes

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What if...

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What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

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Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Film review

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