Nicholas Lezard

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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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

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

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

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

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

Barking mad

  • 25 October 1999

Reigning Cats and Dogs Katherine MacDonogh Fourth Estate, 304pp, £15 ISBN 1857025954

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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