Julian Barnes

What Are You Looking At?

No fin-de-siècle artist was more fascinated by the artistic relevance of gawkers on the streets of Paris than Félix Vallotton.

Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France

by Bridget Alsdorf

May 12, 2022 issue

‘The Pen and the Brush’

Of all the arts, writers most envy music. But painting might come a close second.

The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels

by Anka Muhlstein, translated from the French by Adriana Hunter

April 6, 2017 issue

The Triad on the Platform

July 14, 2016 issue

The synagogue in Jedwabne, Poland, before World War II

Even Worse Than We Thought

‘The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne’ by Anna Bikont

The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles

November 19, 2015 issue

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

Daddy’s Girl

Reliving the Thatcher years, via ‘The Iron Lady’

The Iron Lady

a film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

February 23, 2012 issue

‘For Sorrow There Is No Remedy’

A Widow's Story: A Memoir

by Joyce Carol Oates

April 7, 2011 issue

Letter

Joyce Carol Oates

‘A Widow’s Story’

May 26, 2011 issue

John Updike, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 1984; photograph by Dominique Nabokov

Flights

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

by John Updike

Endpoint and Other Poems

by John Updike

The Maples Stories

by John Updike

June 11, 2009 issue

George Orwell, Walberswick Beach, Suffolk, 1934

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

March 12, 2009 issue

Sorry

November 6, 2008 issue

The Odd Couple

That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present

by Robert and Isabelle Tombs

March 29, 2007 issue

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

May 25, 2006 issue

Holy Hysteria

The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898

by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd

April 10, 2003 issue

Morality & Arthur Koestler

April 27, 2000 issue

The Afterlife of Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind

by David Cesarani

February 10, 2000 issue

Always True to France

Paris and Elsewhere

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

The French and Their Revolution

by Richard Cobb, edited and introduced by David Gilmour

August 12, 1999 issue

The Wise Woman

Birds of America

by Lorrie Moore

October 22, 1998 issue

‘O Unforgetting Elephant’

Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life

by Max Saunders

January 9, 1997 issue

Romancing Flaubert

Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

by Francine du Plessix Gray

May 26, 1994 issue

Letter

Marshall Olds

Tidying Up?

December 1, 1994 issue

Unlikely Friendship

Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence

translated by Francis Steegmuller, translated by Barbara Bray

June 10, 1993 issue

The Mystery of a Masterpiece

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian, Paintings, Politics and Censorship

by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, with essays by John House and Douglas Johnson

April 22, 1993 issue