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Julian Barnes

June 2024

  • Writer Julian Barnes, sitting in white chair against blue background, Dec 2022

    The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘The flight to Zurich sounds like the worst mini-break possible’: Julian Barnes on why Britain must legalise assisted dying

    We should be able to die at home, and before we lose our minds to dementia, the writer argues

March 2024

  • An image from Simon Grennan’s graphic novel Dispossession.

    Five of the best
    Five of the best books inspired by classic novels

    It’s unsurprising that literary inspiration comes to writers – here are those who have taken homage to new heights

September 2023

  • Julian Barnes.

    ‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

    The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

November 2022

  • Julian Barnes.

    Britain is a ‘bifurcated place nowadays’, says Julian Barnes

    Author and patron for torture-survivor charity criticises politicians for encouraging ‘mean-spiritedness’

October 2022

  • Salman Rushdie.

    British Library to host Salman Rushdie celebration event

    Writers including Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nigella Lawson will gather in London to share readings and reflections two months after the author was attacked on stage

July 2022

  • Julian Barnes

    The books of my life
    Julian Barnes: ‘When I first read EM Forster, I thought he was a bit wet’

    The author on being impressed by Dostoevsky and influenced by the dictionary – and wanting to drive Noddy’s famous yellow car

June 2022

  • Rose Tremain

    Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity

    Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut

April 2022

  • Julian Barnes

    Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes review – the problem with ambiguity

    This story about an inspirational teacher and the arc of history fatally undermines itself
  • Julian Barnes, photographed at Penguin & Random House offices in London. United Kingdom. Photograph by David Levene 7/10/19

    Book of the day
    Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes review – a roman à clef with a key that’s hard to find

    Barnes experiments with narrative – and the reader’s patience – in this literary, in-joke-filled story of a man obsessed with a female lecturer on culture
  • Clockwise from top left: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nicola Sturgeon, Bernardine Evaristo, Joe Wicks, Corinne Bailey Rae and Damon Galgut.

    Hay festival returns with its first in-person event for three years

    Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bernardine Evaristo, Elif Shafak and Benedict Cumberbatch are among those taking part in the 11-day gathering in Welsh border town

January 2022

  • Nicole Kidman in the film version of Before I Go To Sleep.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about amnesia

    Writers from Julian Barnes to Oliver Sacks and Petina Gappah find some profound truths in what gets lost to memory

November 2021

  • Ian McDiarmid.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ian McDiarmid: ‘As a kid, I always wanted to be the baddie’

    The theatre and film actor on staging a pair of Julian Barnes stories, playing Emperor Palpatine, and finding peace in isolation

October 2021

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    The Lemon Table review – love and death with Julian Barnes

  • Beady, studied, never casual … Ian McDiarmid in The Lemon Table.

    The Lemon Table review – Julian Barnes’ stories of mortality and musicality

June 2021

  • Ian McDiarmid

    Ian McDiarmid to tour show based on Julian Barnes stories about ageing

    Actor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance

April 2021

  • Saoirse Ronan in the film version of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2015).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 homecomings in fiction

    From Colm Tóibín to Margaret Atwood and Yaa Gyasi, these stories reflect on the ambivalent complications of going back to where you’re from

November 2020

  • Johnny Depp (left) and Frank Langella in The Ninth Gate (1999), the film version of The Dumas Club.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about books

    From John Boyne to Julian Barnes and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, novelist Antoine Laurain chooses stories that are told inside stories

April 2020

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    Government rejects bid to turn Oscar Wilde’s prison into an arts centre

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    Lockdown culture
    Tiger King and a bloody mary: Hilary Mantel, Simon Armitage and other writers on lockdown life

November 2019

  • Dr Pozzi at Home by John Singer Sargeant.

    Book of the day
    The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes review - a belle epoque womaniser

    A virtuoso gynaecologist is placed skilfully at the centre of a web of connections in an era of Parisian decadence
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