Julian Symons

In the LRB Archive:

• Our Jack · 22 July 1993

  • Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare by Theresa Whistler

• Intolerance · 8 October 1992

  • The God-Fearer by Dan Jacobson

• Back to the future · 10 September 1992

  • The Children of Men by P.D. James
  • A Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr
  • Spoilt by Georgina Hammick
  • The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adair
  • Jerusalem Commands by Michael Moorcock

• Timo of Corinth · 6 August 1992

  • A Choice of Murder by Peter Vansittart
  • Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Barbara Anderson
  • Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
  • Double Down by Tom Kakonis

• Poe’s Woes · 23 April 1992

  • Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance by Kenneth Silverman

• Advice for the New Nineties · 12 March 1992

  • HMS Glasshouse by Sean O’Brien
  • The Hogweed Lass by Alan Dixon
  • Collected Poems by Les Murray

• Terrible to be alive · 5 December 1991

  • Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life by William Pritchard
  • Randall Jarrell: Selected Poems edited by William Pritchard

• Unlucky Jim · 10 October 1991

  • The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard

• The brief possibility of a different kind of history · 12 September 1991

  • The Myth of the Blitz by Angus Calder

• Making up · 15 August 1991

  • Lipstick, Sex and Poetry by Jeremy Reed
  • A poet could not but be gay by James Kirkup
  • There was a young man from Cardiff by Dannie Abse
  • String of Beginners by Michael Hamburger

• City of Dust · 25 July 1991

  • A Den of Foxes by Stuart Hood
  • Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin
  • A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri
  • Spider by Patrick McGrath

• Bourgeois Masterpieces · 13 June 1991

  • Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays by Arnold Kettle, edited by Graham Martin and W.R. Owens

• Urgent · 21 February 1991

  • By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart
  • The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals by Elizabeth Smart
  • Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart edited by Alice Van Wart

• What ho, Giotto! · 7 February 1991

  • Stanley Spencer by Kenneth Pople

• Victor Ludorum · 20 December 1990

  • The Complete Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett
  • Lasting Impressions by V.S. Pritchett

• Who they think they are · 8 November 1990

  • You’ve had your time by Anthony Burgess
  • An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond by Paul Bailey

• Paul and Penny · 25 October 1990

  • Paul Scott: A Life by Hilary Spurling
  • Paul Scott’s Raj by Robin Moore

• Dirty Jokes · 13 September 1990

  • Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
  • Deception by Philip Roth
  • Homeboy by Seth Morgan

• Deep down · 28 June 1990

  • The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr, translated by John Woods
  • The End of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
  • The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe
  • Last Loves by Alan Sillitoe

• Burlington Bertie · 14 June 1990

  • The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read by James King

• Oms and Hums · 22 March 1990

  • Ginsberg: A Biography by Barry Miles

• Orwellspeak · 9 November 1989

  • The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George’ Orwell by John Rodden

• Darts for art’s sake · 28 September 1989

  • London Fields by Martin Amis

• Beyond Everyday Life · 5 March 1981

  • The Blaze of Noon by Rayner Heppenstall

• Cityscape with Figures · 21 August 1980

  • The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning

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