Julian Barnes | The New York Review of Books

What Are You Looking At?

No fin-de-siècle artist was more fascinated by the artistic relevance of gawkers on the streets of Paris than Félix Vallotton.

Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France

by Bridget Alsdorf

May 12, 2022 issue

‘The Pen and the Brush’

Of all the arts, writers most envy music. But painting might come a close second.

The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels

by Anka Muhlstein, translated from the French by Adriana Hunter

April 6, 2017 issue

The Triad on the Platform

July 14, 2016 issue

Even Worse Than We Thought

‘The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne’ by Anna Bikont

The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles

November 19, 2015 issue

Daddy’s Girl

Reliving the Thatcher years, via ‘The Iron Lady’

The Iron Lady

a film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

February 23, 2012 issue

‘For Sorrow There Is No Remedy’

A Widow's Story: A Memoir

by Joyce Carol Oates

April 7, 2011 issue

Letter

Joyce Carol Oates

‘A Widow’s Story’

May 26, 2011 issue

Flights

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

by John Updike

Endpoint and Other Poems

by John Updike

The Maples Stories

by John Updike

June 11, 2009 issue

Such, Such Was Eric Blair

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

by George Orwell, compiled and with an introduction by George Packer

All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

by George Orwell, compiled by George Packer, with an introduction by Keith Gessen

Why I Write

by George Orwell

March 12, 2009 issue

Sorry

November 6, 2008 issue

The Odd Couple

That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present

by Robert and Isabelle Tombs

March 29, 2007 issue

Flaubert, C’est Moi

Flaubert: A Biography

by Frederick Brown

Bouvard and Pécuchet

by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, with a preface by Raymond Queneau

May 25, 2006 issue

Holy Hysteria

“From January until October 1898 a convulsion of anti-Semitism ran through France; no major population center was spared, whether there were Jews living in it or not. There were demonstrations and riots, attacks on synagogues and shops; ‘patriots’ encouraged hotelkeepers to evict Jews from their rooms.”

The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898

by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd

April 10, 2003 issue

Morality & Arthur Koestler

April 27, 2000 issue

The Afterlife of Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind

by David Cesarani

February 10, 2000 issue