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Nicholson Baker

June 2021

  • Numero uno … actor Paul O’Hanrahan performs the Calypso chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses for Bloomsday in Dublin in 2008.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels told in a single day

    From James Joyce and Virginia Woolf to Nicholson Baker, the ‘circadian novel’ can pack lifetimes of experience into 24 hours

May 2021

  • Mind the gap

    Out of office: how the pandemic is rewriting the workplace novel

    A new crop of novels are exploring work culture and burnout – yet for many, the office feels like a distant memory. In the light of coronavirus, where will this literature go next?

August 2020

  • Nicholson Baker

    The Q&A
    Nicholson Baker: 'I fear America has become a bloated roadkill cadaver'

    The novelist and writer on his beard and why he wishes he hadn’t made so much money in his 30s

January 2015

  • Detail from Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder

    Books blog
    Sex a 'political issue' at the Jaipur literature festival

  • Friends

    Top 10s
    The top 10 novels about lost friendships

November 2014

  • Nicholson Baker

    Top 10s
    The top 10 books about reading

    Top 10: Books about books, where literature is integral to life, are a genre in themselves, as terrific titles by authors from Nicholson Baker to Geoff Dyer very readably show

June 2014

  • Clifford Illo

    Travelling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker review – beautiful and touching

    Baker's tale of a romantically yearning poet is a sequel to The Anthologist, but charms as a stand-alone love story, writes Mark Lawson

December 2013

  • Office escalator

    Comfort reading
    Comfort reading: The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

    Continuing a series on writers and readers' favourite comfort reads, Lindesay Irvine picks a book that finds exquisite pleasure in the minutiae of things

November 2012

  • Nicholson Baker

    The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker – review

    Leo Robson is underwhelmed by Nicholson Baker's essays

September 2012

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    The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker – review

    Nicholson Baker's 'microscopically attentive' essays provide plenty of food for thought, writes Sam Leith

February 2012

  • Teju Cole

    Paperback fiction: February fiction

    This month brings a dazzling Nigerian view of New York, deep Irish memories from Edna O'Brien, and a complex drama of the new India from Aravind Adiga

August 2011

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye: reviews roundup

  • Gladwell

    Shortcuts
    Nicholson Baker's 'glorious filthfest' gives a whole new meaning to The Tipping Point

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    Nicholson Baker: 'Writing this book was the most fun I ever had'

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    House of Holes by Nicholson Baker – review

July 2011

  • Nicholson Baker

    Classics corner
    The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker – review

    The minutiae of daily life are brilliantly explored in Nicholson Baker's humorous account of one man's lunch hour, writes Ben East

August 2010

  • The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

    Nicholson Baker's novel about a failed poet is a delight, writes Killian Fox

September 2009

  • A life in ...
    A life in writing

    Nicholson Baker:I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction

August 2009

  • Metre, rhyme and washing lines

    Review: The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
    Andrew Motion detects a whiff of self-parody in the distracted poet at the heart of this novel

July 2009

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