Julian Evans
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Books
Endless night
- 03 June 2002
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
Edited by Nathalie Babel Picador, 1,072pp, £30
ISBN 0330490311
Books
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
International Politics
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
Books
Shaggy dog story
- 13 August 2001
Laurence Sterne: a life
Ian Campbell Ross Oxford University Press, 512pp, £25
ISBN 0192122355
Books
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
Books
Little England
- 05 March 2001
The Comedy Man
D J Taylor Duck Editions, 256pp, £9.99
ISBN 0715630598
Books
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
Politics
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
Politics
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
Politics
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
