Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

From the Review

June 11, 2009: Flights

My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike

Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike

The Maples Stories by John Updike

March 12, 2009: Such, Such Was Eric Blair

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell, compiled and with an introduction by George Packer

All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell, compiled by George Packer, with an introduction by Keith Gessen

Why I Write by George Orwell

November 6, 2008: Sorry (letter)

March 29, 2007: The Odd Couple*

That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present by Robert and Isabelle Tombs

May 25, 2006: Flaubert, C'est Moi*

Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown

Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, with a preface by Raymond Queneau

April 10, 2003: Holy Hysteria*

The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd

April 27, 2000: Morality & Arthur Koestler (letter)

February 10, 2000: The Afterlife of Arthur Koestler*

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani

August 12, 1999: Always True to France*

Paris and Elsewhere by Richard Cobb, edited and introduced by David Gilmour, by (Distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)

The French and Their Revolution by Richard Cobb, edited and introduced by David Gilmour

October 22, 1998: The Wise Woman*

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

January 9, 1997: 'O Unforgetting Elephant'*

Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life by Max Saunders

May 26, 1994: Romancing Flaubert*

Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse by Francine du Plessix Gray

June 10, 1993: Unlikely Friendship*

Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence translated by Francis Steegmuller, translated by Barbara Bray

April 22, 1993: The Mystery of a Masterpiece*

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian, Paintings, Politics and Censorship by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, with essays by John House, by Douglas Johnson

October 22, 1992: 'The Proudest and Most Arrogant Man in France'*

Letters of Gustave Courbet edited and translated by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

October 11, 1990: Night for Day*

François Truffaut: Correspondence, 1945–1984 edited by Gilles Jacob, edited by Claude de Givray, translated by Gilbert Adair, foreword by Jean-Luc Godard

November 9, 1989: Prince of Poets*

Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé edited and translated by Rosemary Lloyd

November 20, 1986: How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Baudelaire!*

Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude translated and edited by Rosemary Lloyd

From New York Review Books

Paris and Elsewhere
Collecting memoirs, portraits of favorite haunts, appreciations of Simenon and Queneau, René Clair and Brassaï, and including the famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," Paris and Elsewhere shows us a France unglimpsed by tourists.

Books by Julian Barnes

Something to Declare: Essays on France (2002)
Love, Etc. (2000)
England, England (1998)
Cross Channel (1996)
Letters from London: 1990-1995 (1995)
The Porcupine (1992)
Talking It Over: A Novel (1991)
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)
Metroland (1987)
Staring at the Sun (1986)
Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Before She Met Me (1982)
Metroland (1980)