Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett’s Smut: Two Unseemly Stories came out last year, and was described as ‘lovely’ by the New Yorker.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary · 5 January 2012

• Baffled at a Bookcase: My Libraries · 28 July 2011

• Primrose Hill Lectures 2011 on libraries · 15 June 2011

• Diary · 16 December 2010

• The Greening of Mrs Donaldson: A Story · 9 September 2010

• Diary · 7 January 2010

• Alan Bennett writes about his new play: ‘The Habit of Art’ · 5 November 2009

• Bennett’s Dissection: 2008 Diary · 1 January 2009

• What I Didn’t Do in 2007 · 3 January 2008

• The Uncommon Reader: A Story · 8 March 2007

• My 2006: 2006 Diary · 4 January 2007

• Diary: What I did in 2005 · 5 January 2006

• What I Did in 2004 · 6 January 2005

• A Common Assault: in Italy · 4 November 2004

• The History Boy: exam-taking · 3 June 2004

• Postscript: The tap-dancing Lord Hutton · 19 February 2004

• A Shameful Year · 8 January 2004

• ‘Two in Torquay’: a short play · 10 July 2003

• Secrets are best kept by those who have no sense of humour: Why I turned down ‘Big Brother’ · 2 January 2003

• Seeing Stars: film actors · 3 January 2002

• The Laying on of Hands · 7 June 2001

• Alan Bennett’s 2000 Diary · 25 January 2001

• A Cure for Arthritis and Other Tales · 2 November 2000

• Memories of Lindsay Anderson: Lindsay Anderson · 20 July 2000

• What I did in 1999 · 20 January 2000

• Father! Father! Burning Bright · 9 December 1999

• Untold Stories · 30 September 1999

• What I did in 1998 · 21 January 1999

• Nights in the Gardens of Spain · 1 October 1998

• Alan Bennett chooses four paintings for schools: Studying the Form · 2 April 1998

• Notes on 1997: Me Looking like a Flustered Turkey · 1 January 1998

• K.B. McFarlane is remembered by Alan Bennett, his former student, and the life of a Forties Oxford don is evoked in two of his letters · 4 September 1997

• What I did in 1996 · 2 January 1997

• The Clothes They Stood Up In · 28 November 1996

• Diary · 4 January 1996

• Alan Bennett remembers Peter Cook · 25 May 1995

• Madness: The Movie · 9 February 1995

• Diary · 20 October 1994

• ‘The Stringalongs’ · 24 February 1994

• Where I was in 1993 · 16 December 1993

• Alas! Deceived: Philip Larkin · 25 March 1993

  • Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion

• The King and I · 30 January 1992

• Diary · 24 January 1991

• Diary · 11 January 1990

• The Lady in the Van · 26 October 1989

• Ten days that shook · 15 September 1988

• Where was I in 1987? · 10 December 1987

• Kafka at Las Vegas · 23 July 1987

• Diary · 18 December 1986

• Uncle Clarence · 5 June 1986

• Diary · 5 December 1985

• The Wrong Blond · 23 May 1985

  • Auden in Love by Dorothy Farnan

• Diary · 20 December 1984

• Lost Jokes · 2 August 1984

• Diary · 16 February 1984

• Instead of a Present · 15 April 1982

• Bad John: John Osborne · 3 December 1981

  • A Better Class of Person by John Osborne

• Men’s Talk · 3 December 1981

• Cold Sweat · 15 October 1981

  • Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman

• Gielgud’s Achievements · 20 December 1979

  • An Actor and his Time by John Gielgud

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