Nicholas Lezard
Nicholas Lezard is a literary critic for the Guardian and also writes for the Independent. He writes the Down and Out in London column for the New Statesman.
Articles by Nicholas Lezard
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Society
Down and out in London
- 26 March 2009
Once you hit your stride, you’re spending about 23 hours a day in bed. No wonder I look so well
Society
Waiting for nothing
- 12 March 2009
Living like a student again, our columnist discovers the pleasures of Corrie and why you should never tell a woman she’s overweight
Life & Society
Idle and profligate
- 05 March 2009
- 1 comment
Ever since taking up my wife’s suggestion that I leave the family home, sleeping on a fold-out sofa, I can’t afford mayonnaise unless I give up wine
Politics
How I learned to love the airport
- 15 May 2000
- 1 comment
Nicholas Lezard, after a magical experience in Nice, offers his rules for enjoying the long wait for a flight
Books
The rest is silence. In Samuel Beckett's prose you can trace the gradual disintegration of his protagonists from life to dying to a kind of extended death reverie. Nicholas Lezard rereads the master
- 10 January 2000
Shorts Samuel Beckett John Calder, 12 volumes, £30 ISBN 0714543063
Books
Barking mad
- 25 October 1999
Reigning Cats and Dogs Katherine MacDonogh Fourth Estate, 304pp, £15 ISBN 1857025954
