Jenny Turner

Jenny Turner’s first piece for the LRB, in 1991, was about Janice Galloway and James Kelman.

In the LRB Archive:

• Man is the pie: Alasdair Gray · 21 February 2013

  • Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray

• Sun, Suffering and Savagery: Deborah Levy · 27 September 2012

  • Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

• At the V&A: Ballgowns · 5 July 2012

• Superficially Pally: Richard Sennett · 22 March 2012

  • Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-Operation by Richard Sennett

• As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes: On Feminism · 15 December 2011

• Illuminating, horrible etc: David Foster Wallace · 14 April 2011

  • Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
  • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace

• Seeing Things Flat: Tom McCarthy’s ‘C’ · 9 September 2010

  • C by Tom McCarthy

• Who Are They?: The Institute of Ideas · 8 July 2010

• Pornotheology: Martin Amis · 22 April 2010

  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

• How Dare He?: Geoff Dyer · 11 June 2009

  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

• Stick in a Pie for Tomorrow: Thrift · 14 May 2009

  • Make Do and Mend: Keeping Family and Home Afloat on War Rations
  • The Thrifty Cookbook: 476 Ways to Eat Well with Leftovers by Kate Colquhoun
  • The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
  • Jamie’s Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours by Jamie Oliver
  • Eating for Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations

• The Beautiful Undead: Vegetarian Vampires · 26 March 2009

  • Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwick
  • Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

• I Wish I’d Never Had You: Janice Galloway · 9 October 2008

  • This Is Not about Me by Janice Galloway

• Move Your Head and the Picture Changes: Helen DeWitt · 11 September 2008

  • Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

• Angry Duck: Lorrie Moore · 5 June 2008

  • The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore

• Whoosh: Eat the Document · 7 June 2007

  • Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta

• Across the Tellyverse: Daleks v. Cybermen · 22 June 2006

  • Doctor Who
  • Doctor Who: A Critical Reading of the Series by Kim Newman

• Charging about in Brogues: Sarah Waters · 23 February 2006

  • The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

• Special Frocks: Justine Picardie · 5 January 2006

  • My Mother’s Wedding Dress: The Fabric of Our Lives by Justine Picardie

• As Astonishing as Elvis: Ayn Rand · 1 December 2005

  • Ayn Rand by Jeff Britting

• Aberdeen rocks: Stewart Home · 9 May 2002

  • 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess by Stewart Home

• Reasons for Liking Tolkien: The Hobbit Habit · 15 November 2001

• A Tulip and Two Bulbs: Jeanette Winterson · 7 September 2000

  • The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson

• Top of the World: Douglas Coupland · 22 June 2000

  • Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland

• Tucked in and under: Tim Parks · 30 September 1999

  • Destiny by Tim Parks

• Eat grass: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank · 15 July 1999

  • The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

• When the Sandwich Was Still a New Invention · 17 July 1997

  • Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

• Fairy Lights · 2 November 1995

  • Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

• I’ve Got Your Number (Written on the Back of my Hand) · 11 May 1995

  • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

• The Opposite of a Dog · 6 October 1994

  • Radon Daughters by Iain Sinclair

• Lauraphobia · 10 March 1994

  • In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker

• Sick Boys · 2 December 1993

  • Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

• Nicely! Nicely! · 13 May 1993

  • Operation Shylock by Philip Roth

• Super-Striking · 24 September 1992

  • High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney

• She Who Can Do No Wrong · 6 August 1992

  • Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark

• Self-Disclosing Days · 23 April 1992

  • Holograms of Fear by Slavenka Drakulic, translated by Ellen Elias-Barsaic and Slavenka Drakulic
  • Revolution From Within by Gloria Steinem
  • How we survived Communism and even laughed by Slavenka Drakulic

• Sid after a hamster, Vicious because he wasn’t · 19 December 1991

  • England’s dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock by Jon Savage

• Right-ons · 24 October 1991

  • Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson
  • The players come again by Amanda Cross
  • Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross
  • Birth Marks by Sarah Dunant
  • Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky
  • Deep Sleep by Frances Fyfield

• Scottish Men and Scottish Women · 27 June 1991

  • The Burn by James Kelman
  • Blood by Janice Galloway

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