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Roland Barthes

February 2022

  • Olivia Laing … ‘I was seduced by Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester.’

    The books of my life
    Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’

    The British writer on discovering Barthes, channelling Burroughs and appreciating the talents of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr Ripley

October 2021

  • Paul at home in England, 1980

    Ken Dodd, Stockhausen and Psycho: unlocking Paul McCartney’s musical genius

    When I was asked to collaborate with the former Beatle on a book, I gained a unique insight into the creative process behind the band’s biggest hits, writes Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon

April 2020

  • 7th MARCH - LONDON : Julia Kristeva, writer, philosopher. (photograph by Graeme Robertson )

    At the Risk of Thinking by Alice Jardine review – the importance of Julia Kristeva

  • Hands across generations … Ka-Man Tse’s contribution to Odette England’s Keeper of the Hearth.

    Looking for Henriette: Roland Barthes' tantalising mystery

January 2020

  • Shadowy figures amid lines of computer code

    If a novel was good, would you care if it was created by artificial intelligence?

    Richard Lea
    The first computer-generated screenplays are promised within five years. Fiction can’t be far behind, says Guardian books writer Richard Lea

May 2017

  • Roland Barthes

    The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet review – who killed Roland Barthes?

  • Roland Barthes on French TV in the 1970s

    Book of the day
    The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet – who killed Roland Barthes?

August 2016

  • Kim Kardashian

    Mythomania by Peter Conrad review – the real meaning of Apple, cronuts and the Kardashians

    A collection of playful essays, inspired by Roland Barthes, explores the deeper significance of today’s cultural phenomena

November 2015

  • Roland Barthes

    The week in books
    Happy 100th birthday, Roland Barthes

    Little did the great demythologiser know that after his death he would become famous, commodified and mythic himself

August 2015

  • Roland Barthes

    Books blog
    Roland Barthes' challenge to biography

    The great critic’s life can certainly be seen in his work, but – as one would expect from the man who pronounced the Author dead – in more complicated ways than we are used to

February 2012

  • Steven Poole's non-fiction choice
    Et cetera: non-fiction roundup - reviews

    Steven Poole on Roland Barthes' Travels in China, Enjoy Every Sandwich by Lee Lipsenthal and Screw Business As Usual by Richard Branson

May 2011

  • Roland Barthes

    New publisher dedicated to essays hopes to revive the form

    Notting Hill Editions launches with work from authors including Roland Barthes, John Berger and Georges Perec

March 2011

  • Roland Barthes in 1978

    Rereading
    Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes

    Rereading: Grieving for his mother, Roland Barthes looked for her in old photos – and wrote a curious, moving book that became one of the most influential studies of photography. By Brian Dillon

December 2010

  • French Philosopher Roland Barthes

    Top 10s
    John Sutherland's top 10 books about books

    From Aristotle to Roland Barthes, the author and commentator gives his analysis of the critics who find the hard answers to simple questions, and offers some improving ideas for new year's reading

January 2010

  • Roland Barthes

    Books blog
    In theory: The Death of the Author

    Andrew Gallix: Kicking off a new occasional series about the most influential literary theory, Andrew Gallix revisits a classic essay by Roland Barthes

March 2009

  • The week in books
    The week in books

  • Roland Barthes, Paris, 1979

    Books blog
    Do we need posthumous publication?

November 2008

  • A tale of Two Cities

    Book cover redesign: and the winner is ....

    Inspired by the Canadian blog Bookninja's cover competition, we asked you to redesign a famous novel for a dumbed-down era

March 2008

  • Books blog
    Signs of the times

    Fifty years on, Roland Barthes' Mythologies hasn't been superseded, it's been implemented

February 2003

  • But what does it mean?

    He saw cathedrals in Citroëns and modern myths in washing powder. Now a new exhibition turns Roland Barthes into an icon

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