Christopher Tayler

Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.

In the LRB Archive:

• Passing-Out Time: Patrick Hamilton’s drinking · 29 January 2009

  • The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
  • The Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton

• Walk Spanish: Joshua Ferris · 19 July 2007

  • Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

• Heir to Blair: Among the New Tories · 26 April 2007

• Belgravia Cockney: on being a le Carré bore · 25 January 2007

  • The Mission Song by John le Carré

• Zoning Out and In: Richard Ford · 30 November 2006

  • The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

• Give me a Danish pastry!: Nordic crime fiction · 17 August 2006

  • The Priest of Evil by Matti-Yrjänä Joensuu, translated by David Hackston
  • Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, translated by Lois Roth
  • Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson
  • The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
  • Voices by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Bernard Scudder

• Kill the tuna can: George Saunders · 8 June 2006

  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

• Yuh wanna play bad?: Henry Roth · 23 March 2006

  • Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven Kellman
  • Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

• What the Public Most Wants to See: Rick Moody · 23 February 2006

  • The Diviners by Rick Moody

• Imbued … with Exigence: Rachel Cusk · 22 September 2005

  • In the Fold by Rachel Cusk

• I only want the OM: Somerset Maugham · 1 September 2005

  • Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers

• A Knife at the Throat: Meticulously modelled · 3 March 2005

  • Saturday by Ian McEwan

• It’s alive!: The cult of Godzilla · 3 February 2005

  • Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui

• Hindsight Tickling: disappointing sequels · 21 October 2004

  • The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe

• But Little Bequalmed: Louis de Bernières’s Decency · 2 September 2004

  • Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernières

• A Turk, a Turk, a Turk: Orhan Pamuk · 5 August 2004

  • Snow by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely

• Like choosing between bacon and egg and bacon and tomato: The Wryness of Julian Barnes · 15 April 2004

  • The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes

• Unaccommodated Man: Adventures with Robert Stone · 18 March 2004

  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone

• Wacky: Multofiction · 8 January 2004

  • Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

• High on His Own Supply: Amis Recycled · 11 September 2003

  • Yellow Dog by Martin Amis

• Genderbait for the Nerds: William Gibson · 22 May 2003

  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

• Doofus: Dave Eggers · 3 April 2003

  • You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

• True Grit: Sam Shepard · 6 March 2003

  • Great Dream of Heaven by Sam Shepard

• Putting on the Plum: Richard Flanagan · 31 October 2002

  • Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

• Tseeping: Alain de Botton goes on a trip · 22 August 2002

  • The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

• A Bit of a Lush: William Boyd · 23 May 2002

  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd

• One Small Moment on Michael Frayn · 21 February 2002

  • Spies by Michael Frayn

• Goings-On at Eagle Lake on Barry Hannah · 29 November 2001

  • Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah

• Bad White Men on James Ellroy · 19 July 2001

  • The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy

• Post-Matricide on Patrick McCabe · 5 April 2001

  • Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe

• What a shocking bad hat! on Ackroyd’s ‘London’ · 22 February 2001

  • London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

• Bandini to Hackmuth on John Fante · 21 September 2000

  • Ask the Dust by John Fante
  • Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper

• ‘the crimz & the killers & the nonsiz & the rapiss & the arsoniss & shit’ · 30 March 2000

  • Canteen Culture by Ike Eze-anyika
  • Charlieunclenorfolktango by Tony White
  • Filth by Irvine Welsh

• Attending Poppy on David Grand · 9 December 1999

  • Louse by David Grand

• Lunch Pumphrey, Skeets Benvenuti and a Gang of Other Vicious Tush Hogs on Daniel Woodrell · 10 June 1999

  • Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell

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