Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe’s new novel is Middle England.

In the LRB Archive:

• How bad can it get? · 15 August 2019

• Where are we now? Responses to the Referendum · 14 July 2016

• Clutching at Railings: Late Flann O’Brien · 24 October 2013

  • Plays and Teleplays by Flann O’Brien, edited by Daniel Keith Jernigan
  • The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper

• Sinking Giggling into the Sea: Giggling along with Boris · 18 July 2013

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson edited by Harry Mount

• Nae new ideas, nae worries!: Alasdair Gray · 20 November 2008

  • Old Men in Love: John Tunnock’s Posthumous Papers by Alasdair Gray
  • Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography by Rodge Glass

• And then there was ‘Playtime’: Vive Tati! · 9 December 1999

  • Jacques Tati by David Bellos

• The Life of Henri Grippes · 18 September 1997

  • Selected Stories by Mavis Gallant

• Tact · 20 March 1997

  • The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

• Disorientation · 5 October 1995

  • The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

• Dunny-Digging · 11 May 1995

  • The Riders by Tim Winton

• Principia Efica · 22 September 1994

  • The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey

• The Biographer’s Story · 8 September 1994

  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis

• Shuddering Organisms · 12 May 1994

  • Betrayals by Charles Palliser

• On the highway · 24 March 1994

  • Desperadoes by Joseph O’Connor
  • Resurrection Man by Eoin McNamee
  • Stir-Fry by Emma Donoghue

• A Life of Its Own · 24 February 1994

  • The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies

• Machu Man · 2 December 1993

  • Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten

• Doing justice to the mess · 19 August 1993

  • Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri

• Wheezes · 13 May 1993

  • Cleopatra’s Sister by Penelope Lively

• What else is new? · 11 March 1993

  • The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman

• Gray’s Elegy · 8 October 1992

  • Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

• Sydney’s Inferno · 24 September 1992

  • The Last Magician by Janette Turner Hospital et al
  • Vinland by George Mackay Brown

• Beautiful People · 23 July 1992

  • Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney
  • The Lost Father by Mona Simpson
  • Out with the Stars by James Purdy

• Palimpsest History · 11 June 1992

  • Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
  • Kicking by Leslie Dick
  • Frankie Styne and the Silver Man by Kathy Page

• Calvinoism · 26 March 1992

  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh
  • Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • The Fountains of Neptune by Rikki Ducornet
  • Small Times by Russell Celyn Jones

• Something else · 5 December 1991

  • In Black and White by Christopher Stevenson
  • The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
  • Cley by Carey Harrison

• Australian Circles · 12 September 1991

  • The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
  • The Second Bridegroom by Rodney Hall

• There was and there was not · 4 April 1991

  • To Know a Woman by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
  • The Smile of the Lamb by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg

• Conversions · 13 September 1990

  • Symposium by Muriel Spark
  • The Inn at the Edge of the World by Alice Thomas Ellis

• Skullscape · 12 July 1990

  • Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

• My Wife · 21 December 1989

  • Soho Square II edited by Ian Hamilton

• Openly reticent · 9 November 1989

  • Grand Inquisitor: Memoirs by Robin Day
  • Beginning by Kenneth Branagh
  • Storm over 4: A Personal Account by Jeremy Isaacs

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