Anita Brookner Bibliography

Compiled by Kitamura (Ito) Yukiko

Contributions to Periodicals

1955-1960: [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60]

1961-1970: [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70]

1971-1980: [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80]

1981-1990: [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90]

1991-2000: [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [2000]

2001-present: [2001] [2002] [2003] [2004] [2005]

1955

The Burlington Magazine

April, vol. XCVII, no. 625, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Cubist Aesthetic Theories, by Christopher Gray, p.122.

1956

The Burlington Magazine

May, vol. XCVIII, no. 638, "Jean-Baptiste Greuze I," pp.157-162.
June, vol. XCVIII, no. 639, "Jean-Baptiste Greuze II," pp.192-199.
July, vol. XCVIII, no. 640, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions:Drawings at Messrs Wildenstein," p.249.
November, vol. XCVIII, no. 644, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," p.422.
December, vol. XCVIII, no. 645, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.458-459.

1957

Apollo

vol.65, "Chinoiserie in French Painting," pp.253-257.
vol.66, "Masterpieces in the Dijon Museum," pp.165-169.

The Burlington Magazine

January, vol. XCIX, no. 646, "The Literature of Art," rev. of P. A. Hall: Sa Correspondance de Famille, ed. Karl Asplund, pp.31-32.
February, vol. XCIX, no. 647, "The Literature of Art," rev. of The Mirror of Art: Critical Studies, by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Jonathan Mayne, p.64.
February, vol. XCIX, no. 647, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," p.68.
March, vol. XCIX, no. 648, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," p.104.
April, vol. XCIX, no. 649, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.132-135.
May, vol. XCIX, no. 650, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.170-171.
June, vol. XCIX, no. 651, "The Literature of Art," rev. of The Painter's Eye: Henry James: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts, ed. John L. Sweeney, pp.213-214.
June, vol. XCIX, no. 651, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.215-219.
July, vol. XCIX, no. 652, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.248-251.
August, vol. XCIX, no. 653, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.287-288.
September, vol. XCIX, no. 654, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: France," p.324.
November, vol. XCIX, no. 656, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," p.396.
December, vol. XCIX, no. 657, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.430-431.

1958

Apollo

vol.68, "Aspects of Neo-Classicism in French Painting," pp.67-73.

The Burlington Magazine

January, vol. C, no. 658, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.35-36.
February, vol. C, no. 659, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," p.69.
May, vol. C, no. 662, "Shorter Notices: Bonjour Tristesse," rev. of the exhibition of Bernard Buffet, p.175.
May, vol. C, no. 662, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.182-185.
August, vol. C, no. 665, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Prud'hon, by Georges Grappe, p.292.
November, vol. C, no. 668, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.404-405.
December, vol. C, no. 669, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.450-453.

1959

1960

The Burlington Magazine

April, vol. CII, no. 685, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Deux Critiques d'Art l'Epoque Romantique, by Pontus Grate. p.171.

1961

The Burlington Magazine

March, vol. CIII, no. 696, "The Literature of Art," rev. of The Paintings of Fragonard, by Georges Wildenstein, p.111.
November, vol. CIII, no. 704, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London," pp.476-478.
December, vol. CIII, no. 705, "Letters: American Abstract Paintings," p.513. Reprinted in David Shapiro and Cecile Shapiro, eds., Abstract Expressionism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990), pp.406-407.
December, vol. CIII, no. 705, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London" pp.523-525.

1962

The Burlington Magazine

January, vol. CIV, no. 706, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.44-45.
February, vol. CIV, no. 707, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London," pp.91-92.
March, vol. CIV, no. 708, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London," pp.129-133.
April, vol. CIV, no. 709, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London: Old Masters at Colnaghi's," pp.170-177.
May, vol. CIV, no. 710, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Art de France: Revue annuelle de l'art ancien et moderne, vol. I, p.219.
May, vol. CIV, no. 710, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.221-223.
June, vol. CIV, no. 711, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London," pp.271-275.
July, vol. CIV, no. 712, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London," pp.313-317.
August, vol. CIV, no. 713, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris," pp.361-364.
October, vol. CIV, no. 715, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Ghent and Paris," p.445.

1963

1964

The Burlington Magazine

June, vol. CVI, no. 735, "Art Historians and Art Critic - VII: Charles Baudelaire," pp. 269-279.
November, vol. CVI, no. 740, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard : Artist of 1848, by Joseph C. Sloane, pp.517-518.

1965

The Burlington Magazine

December, vol. CVII, no. 753, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Diderot Studies V, ed. Otis Fellows, pp.635-636.

1966

1967

The Burlington Magazine

May, vol. CIV, no. 770, "From Anita Brookner to Michael Levey: An Open Letter," pp.308-310.

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

The Times Literary Supplement

10 January, "Dark Ghost on a Tilting Bed," rev. of Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus, by Jack J. Spector, p.35.
7 March, "Propagandist of the Pauvre moi," rev. of Baudelaire: Salon de 1846, ed. David Kelley, p.248. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.86-92.
21 March, "The Story and the Image," rev. of The Artist and Writer in France: Essays in Honour of Jean Seznec, by Francis Haskell, Anthony Levi and Robert Shackleton, p.300.
3 October, "The Rethoric of Sensations," Salons, Volume I: 1759, 1761, 1763, by Denis Diderot, ed. Jean Seznec and Jean Adhemar, p.1139. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.70-77.

1976

The Times Literary Supplement

9 January, "Patterns of Alarm," rev. of Gericault, by Charles Clement, introduction et supplement par Lorenz Eitner, pp.33-34.
30 January, "Stranded in France," rev. of The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay) Volumes V and VI, ed. Joyce Hemlow, p.103.
27 February, "Another Word for Feeling," rev. of the Constable exhibition at the Tate Gallery, p.226.
11 June, "Night Thoughts from Nohant," rev. of George Sand: A Biography, by Ruth Jordan, pp.686-687.
23 July, "Supporting Features," rev. of the exhibition Faces as Art at the 15 Carlton House Terrace, p.922.
5 November, "Notre pere de Paris," rev. of Victor Hugo, by Joanna Richardson, p.1386.
19 November, "The Pleasure Principle," rev. of The Doctor's Wife, by Brian Moore, p.1445.
31 December, "Homage to Ledoux," rev. of Thomas Jefferson's Paris, by Howard C. Rice, Jr., p.1632.

1977

The Burlington Magazine

November, vol. CXIX, no. 896, "The Literature of Art," rev. of Ingres, by Jon Whiteley, p.788.

The Times Literary Supplement

21 January, "The Resonance of Mme Moitessier," comment on the portrait by Ingres, p.69.
18 February, "Strongly Disadvantages," rev. of Turnstiles, by Ursula Holden, p.173.
18 March, "Incantation to Inertia," rev. of Gustave Moreau, by Pierre-Louis Mathieu, p.300. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.115-120.
1 April, "Unholy Wedlock," rev. of The Marriage Ring, by Paddy Kitchen and Dulan Barber, and An Evil Streak, by Andrea Newman, p.393.
29 April, "Thoroughly Rotten," rev. of Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, by David Graham Phillips, p.537.
6 May, "The Romantic Lover's Handbook," rev. of Letters a Madame Recamier (1807-1830), by Benjamin Constant, p.552.
13 May, "What Marcie Knew," rev. of Oliver's Story, by Erich Segal, p.581.
24 June, "In a Russia of the Mind," rev. of The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev, by V. S. Pritchett, p.767.
8 July, "Foundling to the Rescue," rev. of The Country Waif, by George Sand, p.821.
7 October, "Continental Drift," rev. of The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough, p.1135.
21 October, "On to Life's Stormy Seas," rev. of Chateaubriand, Volume I: The Longed-for Tempests, by George D. Painter, p.1239.
25 November, "Urged Downwards," rev. of Baggarman, Thief, by Irwin Shaw, p.1373.
30 December, "Signs of Old Age," rev. of the exhibition of Paul Joyce's Photographs of Elders, p.1526.

1978

The Times Literary Supplement

27 January, "The Last of the Old Masters," rev. of the exhibition of Gustave Courbet at the Royal Academy, p.91. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.110-114.
24 February, "Preparing for the Panto," rev. of Minutes to Midnight, by Nancy Spain, p.227.
7 April, "Executive Sweetie," rev. of Bloodline, by Sidney Sheldon, p.369.
5 May, "Composer's Block," rev. of Cesar and Augusta, by Ronald Harwood, p.493.
26 May, "A Cocotte Come to God," rev. of Mes Cahiers Bleus, by Liane de Pougy, p.585.
23 June, "Breaking the Pattern," rev. of the collection Hirsch, p.705.
7 July, "Hokum Tenens," rev. of Past Imperfect: An Autobiography, by Joan Collins, p.758.
14 July, "Old Viennese Obsessions," rev. of Reigning Passions, by Kathrin Perutz, p.789.
4 August, "The Beautiful Belgiojoso," rev. of Cristina: Portraits of a Princess, by Beth Archer Brombert, p.889.
8 September, "Sight Unseen," rev. of A Family Album, by David Galloway, and Picture Palace, by Paul Theroux, p.985.
13 October, "Researching at the Ritz," rev. of Other People's Letters, by Mina Curtiss, p.1144.
20 October, "Boardroom Eyes," comment on the TV program The Foundation, p.1216.

1979

The Burlington Magazine

May, vol. CXXI, no. 914, "The Literature of Art," rev. of The Dawn of Bohemianism, by George Levitine, pp.331-332.

The Times Literary Supplement

23 November, "Sisterhood of the Brush," rev. of The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, by Germaine Greer, p.15.
21 December, "The Willing Victim," rev. of Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask, by Robert F. Storey, p.151. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.129-135.

1980

The Burlington Magazine

November, vol. CXXII, no. 932, "The Literature of Art: An Assessment of Couture," rev. of Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, by Albert Boime, pp.768 and 771.

The Times Literary Supplement

18 January, "The Master of the Attributions," rev. of Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, by Meryle Secrest, and Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur, by Ernest Samuels, pp.51-52. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.93-102.
8 February, "Rousseau and the Social Contract," pp.149-151. Reprinted as "Rousseau's Social Contract" in Soundings (1997), pp.50-69.
22 February, "The Return of the Earth Mother," rev. of Puffball, by Fay Weldon, p.202.
14 March, "Corinne and Her Coups de Foudre," rev. of Madame de Stael, Don Pedro de Souza: Correspondance, ed. Beatrix d'Andlau, pp.287-288. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.162-170.
21 March, "The Eye of Innocence," rev. of Corot, by Jean Leymarie, pp.317-318. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.103-109.
30 May, "In Pursuit of Happiness," rev. of Stendhal, by Robert Alter, p.599. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.153-161.
20 June, "Bonding against the Patriarchs," rev. of Women's Friendship in Literature, by Janet Todd, p.716.
27 June, "Monsters of the Belle Epoque," rev. of Misia: The Life of Misia Sert, by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, p.730.
8 August, "Between Croisset and Chelsea," rev. of Flaubert and an English Governess: The Quest for Juliet Herbert, by Hermia Oliver, p. 888.
17 October, "The Descent into the Untestable," rev. of Deliberate Regression, by Robert Harbison, p.1167. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.136-143.
14 November, "Cuisine Menteur," rev. of Darling, You Shouldn't Have Gone to So Much Trouble, by Caroline Blackwood and Anna Haycraft, p.1282.
26 December, "God's Great Wager," rev. of The Book of Job, a new translation according to the traditional Hebrew text, with introductions by Moshe Greenberg, Jonas C. Greenfield and Nahum M. Sarna, p.1457. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.206-214.

1981

London Review of Books

16 April, “Anita Brookner goes to see Abel Gance’s film ‘Napoleon,’” p.12.

The Spectator

19 September, "The Feminine Feminist," rev. of Colette: A Biography, by Michele Sarde, trans. by Roger Miller, p.19.

The Times Literary Supplement

13 February, "Sick Servants of the Quill," rev. of The Horror of Life, by Roger L. Williams, pp.155-156. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.144-152.
3 April, "The Observer Obliviated," rev. of Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, by Michael Fried, pp.363-364. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.78-85.
10 April, "Enormities of an Emigree," rev. of Le plus beau de toutes les fete: La correspondance inedite de Madame de Stael et d'Elizabeth Hervey, duchesse de Devonshire, by Victor de Pange, p.411.
14 August, "Fandango-ing to a Fortune," rev. of Le Belle Otero: The Last Great Courtesan, by Charles Castle, p.926.
16 October, "Ploughing a Provincial Furrow," rev. of Rosa Bonheur: A Life and a Legend, by Dore Ashton and Denise Browne Hare, p.1189. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.121-128.

The Writer

August, "On Writing a First Novel," pp.5-6.

1982

London Review of Books

15 April, “Dressing and Undressing,Epp.9-10.
6 May, "Scarsdale Romance," rev. of Mrs Harris, by Diana Trilling, pp.3-5. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.185-195.
2 September, "Women against Men," rev. of The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing, pp.19-20. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.196-205.
7 October, “Passion,Epp.11-12.

The Times Literary Supplement

17 October, "A Romantic Episode," rev. of Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet, by Peter Raby, pp.1395-1396.

1983

London Review of Books

3 February, “Enthusiasts,Epp.16-17.
2 June, “Good Girls and Bad Girls,Epp.20-21.
22 December, “Daddy’s Girl,Ep.16.

1984

The Times Literary Supplement

23 March, "Day-Trips to Cythera," rev. of Antoine Watteau, by Donald Posner, pp.299-300.
6 April, "Quarry for the Connoisseur," rev. of the exhibition The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse at the Royal Academy, p.375.
5 October, "The Bibliotheque Nationale," p.1126.

1985

The Burlington Magazine

February, vol. CXXVII, no. 984, "Exhibition Reviews: Paris: Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721," pp.116-117.
August, vol. CXXVII, no. 990, "Book Reviews," rev. of Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth Century Art, by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, pp.540-541.

The Sunday Times

20 October, "Strangers and Brothers," rev. of A Friendship in Letters: Flaubert and Turgenev, the Completence Correspondence, ed. and trans. Barbara Beaumont, p.44.
10 November, "Gallant: Reports from Exile," rev. of Home Truths: Sixteen Stories, by Mavis Gallant, p.44.
22 December, "A Relentless Entertainer," rev. of Noel Coward: The Complete Stories, with a preface by Martin Tickneruen, p.43.

The Times Literary Supplement

28 June, "A Fortune and a Name," rev. of Marthe, a Woman and Her Family: A Fin-de-siecle Correspondence, by Frederick Brown, pp.718-719.
18 October, "Neglected Fictions," comment on Renee Mauperin, Soeur Philomene, Manette Salomon, Madame Gervaisais, by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, p.1179.
29 November, "The State-of-the-Art Crowd," rev. of Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, by Thomas Crow, p.1348.

1986

The Spectator

22 March, "The Sins of the Father," rev. of A Perfect Spy, by John Le Carre, pp.29-30.
19 April, "Terror as an Everyday Affair," rev. of Found in the Street, by Patricia Highsmith, pp.27-28.
24 May, "The Invisibility of Perfection," rev. of Chardin, by Philip Conisbee, pp.32-33.
14 June, "The Loss of Sir Paul," rev. of A Taste for Death, by P. D. James, p.28.
28 June, "At the Height of Her Power," rev. of The Mother's Recompense and Hudson River Bracketed, by Edith Wharton, pp.29-30.
12 July, "Overkill Including the Dog," rev. of The Shrapnel Academy, by Fay Weldon, p.35.
19 July, "The Bitter Fruits of Rejection," rev. of Barbara Pym, by Robert Emmet Long, p.30-31.
26 July, "Failing to Understand Women," rev. of The Women of Guinea Lane, by Gabriel Fielding, p.29.
9 August, "Never Christen a Child With a Toasting-Folk," rev. of Theatre of Sleep: An Anthology of Literary Dreams, by Guido Almansi and Claude Beguin, pp.24-25.
30 August, "Frailty of the Fresh," rev. of Love Unknown, by A. N. Wilson, pp.22-23.
6 September, "Surreal Oxford Junketings," rev. of Dr Gruber's Daughter, by Janice Elliott, p.28.
13 September, "Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Good," rev. of The Old Devils, by Kingsley Amis, pp.31-32.
20 September, "A Civil Servant in a Civil War," rev. of The Free Frenchman, by Piers Paul Read, pp.32-33.
11 October, "Deus in Machina," rev. of Roger's Version, by John Updike, pp.38-39.
18 October, "Laureate of the Left," rev. of News from Nowhere, by David Caute, pp.35-36.
25 October, "An Important Woman," rev. of The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings, 1968-1985, by Germaine Greer, pp.31-32.
8 November, "Unfashionable Pride Defeats Our Prejudice," rev. of Expensive Habits, by Maureen Howard, pp.31-32.
29 November, "Comedies of Good Manners," rev. of The Blush and Other Stories, by Elizabeth Taylor, pp.32-35.

The Times Literary Supplement

10 October, "In the Incomparable Spaces," rev. of the exhibition Francois Boucher 1703-1770 at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, p.1137.

1987

Annale Benjamin Constant

Vol.7, Constant in Britain, "On Adolphe," p.91.

The Burlington Magazine

February, vol. CXXIX, no. 1007, "Book Reviews," rev. of Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art, by Michael Levey, pp.121-122.

The Spectator

10 January, "An Uncomfortable Voice," rev. of Marya : A Life, by Joyce Carol Oates, pp.26-27.
14 February, "Reducing Life to Jokes," rev. of The Selkirk Strip, by Ferdinand Mount, pp.40-41.
21 February, "Death in Instalments," rev. of Baroque 'N' Roll, by Brigid Brophy, pp.34-35.
28 February, "Social Feasting and Tribal Fasting," rev. of Seasonal Tribal Feasts, by Stuart Evans, pp.35-36.
28 March, "Down One-Way Streets to Meaner Parts," rev. of A Fatal Inversion, by Barbara Vine, pp.33-34.
4 April, "Journey into Fear," rev. of To the City, by Gillian Tindall, pp.36-37.
11 April, "Fear in a Handful of Pages," rev. of Sugar and Other Stories, by A. S. Byatt, pp.35-37.
18 April, "Black Melancholy Mischief," rev. of The Stories of Muriel Spark, pp.29-30.
2 May, "Too Much of a Muchness," rev. of The Radiant Way, by Margaret Drabble, pp.29-30.
16 May, "Revenge of the Weird Sisters," rev. of A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor, p.34.
23 May, "Penny, Louisa, Daphne and Alice," rev. of The Last Romantics, by Caroline Seebohm, p.50.
6 June, "A Girl's Best Subject Is Her Mother," rev. of Bluebeard's Egg, by Margaret Atwood and The Garden of the Villa Mollini, by Rose Tremain, p.37.
20 June, "The Shock of the Old," rev. of Captain Vinegar's Commission, by Philip Glazebrook, pp.26-27.
18 July, "By Love Possessed, or Not Really ?," rev. of Worldly Goods, by Elizabeth North, p.30.
1 August, "The Madness of Art," rev. of Henry James : A Life, by Leon Edel, pp.28-29.
5 September, "When Things Come to a Head," rev. of The Case of Thomas N., by John David Morley, pp.32-33.
19 September, "The Pleasures of the Suburbs," rev. of Trust Me, by John Updike, pp.44-45.
26 September, "The Making of a Member of The Group," rev. of How I Grew, by Mary McCarthy, pp.28-29.
3 October, "Quietly Excellent and Very English," rev. of The Gooseboy, by A. L. Barker, p.34.
10 October, "Mysterious Affairs in Style," rev. of The House of Hospitalities, by Emma Tennant, p.38.
17 October, "Time and the single girl," rev. of A Southern Family, by Gail Godwin, pp.36-37.
24 October, "Stupidity Is in the Head of the Beholder," rev. of Three Continents, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, pp.27-29.
31 October, "The Depth of His Potato Love," rev. of More Die of Heartbreak, by Saul Bellow, pp.36-37.
14 November, "Just Looking for a Place in the Sun," rev. of The Other Garden, by Francis Wyndham, pp.34-35.
28 November, "Christmas Books I," p.34.
5 December, "The Support of His Mad Mother," rev. of Portrait of a Bonaparte: The Life and Times of Joseph-Napoleon Primoli 1851-1927, by Joanna Richardson, pp.50-51.

The Times Literary Supplement

6 March, "A Nun of Art," rev. of Judith Gautier: A Biography, by Joanna Richardson, pp.235-236. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.171-177.

The Washington Post: Book World

4 January, "Story of Late Love and Sisterhood," rev. of The Magician's Girl, by Doris Grumbach, p.3 and p.13.

1988

The Spectator

16 January, "Things Past and Things Passed on," rev. of The Messiah of Stockholm, by Cynthia Ozick, pp.29-30.
13 February, "Beneath the Surface," rev. of The Bornfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe, pp.37-38.
20 February, "A Kiss Is No Longer Just a Kiss," rev. of You Must Remember This, by Joyce Carol Oates, pp.27-28.
27 February, "Tragedy Rendered Suburban," rev. of The Wedding, by Yann Queffelec, trans. Linda Coverdale, pp.32-33.
26 March, "Memory, Speak but Do Not Condemn," rev. of A Far Cry From Kensington, by Muriel Spark, p.31.
2 April, "An Extremely Wearing Business," rev. of The Fashion Conspiracy, by Nicholas Coleridge, pp.28-29.
30 April, "Getting Rid of the Garbage," rev. of 'S'. A Novel, by John Updike, pp.35-36.
4 June, "Disquiet on the Western Front," rev. of The Silence of the Garden, by William Trevor, p.29.
25 June, "The Importance of Being Alone," rev. of The School of the Genius, by Anthony Storr, p.39.
9 July, "The Primrose Path Dalliance," rev. of Leader of the Band, by Fay Weldon, pp.62-63.
16 July, "Mad about the Girl," rev. of Our Song, by Keith Waterhouse, pp.29-30.
10 September, "The Perils of Biography," rev. of Deceits of Time, by Isabel Colegate, pp.34-35.
17 September, "Bounced Czech Returned to Sender," rev. of A Season in the West, by Piers Paul Read, p.48.
24 September, "New Interests in an Old Setting," rev. of Loving and Giving, by Molly Keane, p.37.
1 October, "Moscow Before the Revolution," rev. of The Beginning of Spring, by Penelope Fitzgerald, pp.29-30.
8 October, "Gentle Customs of an Italian Matriarchy," rev. of The Lost Father, by Marina Warner, pp.31-32.
15 October, "Unassuagable Sense of Loss," rev. of The High Road, by Edna O'Brien, p.42.
22 October, "A Storm Is Brewing," rev. of Grace, by Maggie Gee, p.35.
26 November, "Christmas Books I," p.40.
10 December, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," p.39.

1989

The Observer

26 March, "The Blood of Bounders," rev. of Daddy, we Hardly Knew You, by Germaine Greer, p.47.
23 April, "Aches and Pains of Assimilation," rev. of The Club: The Jews of Modern Britain, by Stephen Brook, p.44.
13 August, "The Chink of a Spoon," rev. of Marcel Proust by George Painter, p.41.
29 October, "Novelistfs Imaginary Museum," rev. of Just Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike, p.49.

The Spectator

21 January, "Things Fall Apart and Cannot Be Glued," rev. of Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler, p.36.
28 January, "Unable to Climb Out of the Abyss," rev. of Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood, pp.32-33.
18 February, "Not Decadent Enough," rev. of The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J. K. Huysmans, ed. Barbara Beaumont, pp.29-30.
18 March, "A House Is Not a Home," rev. of Have the Men Had Enough?, by Margaret Forster, pp.26-27.
25 March, "Men, Women and the Whole Damn Thing," rev. of The Grown-ups, by Victoria Glendinning, pp.29-30.
8 April, "As Natural As Breathing or Going for a Walk," rev. of Passing On, by Penelope Lively, p.33.
15 April, "Ring of Falsehood," rev. of A Theft, by Saul Bellow, pp.29-30.
6 May, "Looking Everywhere in Anger," rev. of The Cloning of Joanna May, by Fay Weldon, p.31.
13 May, "Happy Child Father to a Happy Man," rev. of Self-Consciousness: A Memoir, by John Updike, and Out on the Marsh, by David Updike, pp.37-38.
1 July, "Decline and Fall of a Dandy," rev. of Baudelaire, by Claude Pichois, pp.23-24.
16 September, "Of Love and Death," rev. of Falling, by Colin Thubron, p.43.
30 September, "The Girls of Slender Connections," rev. of A Natural Curiosity, by Margaret Drabble, p.35.
7 October, "Without a Hint of Melancholy," rev. of Other Prople's Trades, by Primo Levi, pp.34-35.
14 October, "The BCD of Everything," rev. of Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco, pp.33-34.
4 November, "In Need of Considerable Gilding," rev. of The Fly in the Ointment, by Alice Thomas Ellis, p.31.
25 November, "Christmas Books I," p.40.
9 December, "Nostalgia for Something Awful," rev. of An Awfully Big Adventure, by Beryl Bainbridge, p.37.

1990

The Independent Magazine

21 July, "Anita Brookner in a Suburabn Idyll," p.22.

The Independent on Sunday

28 January, "Adrift on the Cote dfEnnui," rev. of In Transit, by Mavis Gallant, p.22.
11 February, "The Fault-Line between Love and Work," rev. of The New Women and the Old Men, by Ruth Brandon, p.17.
18 February, "A South London Innocent Abroad," rev. of At Home and Abroad, by V. S. Pritchett, p.18.
22 April, "Ay, but to Die, and Go We Know not Where," rev. of The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death, by Rosemary Dinnage, p.15.
10 June, "The Long Road to Freedom," rev. of Simone de Beauvoir, by Deirdre Bair, p.15.
24 November, "Second Thoughts: Windows onto the Suburbs: Anita Brookner on a Walk in Wandsworth Bridge Road Which Inspired Her Novel Lewis Percy," p.32.

The Observer

7 October, "An Eternal Mademoiselle," rev. of Coco Chanel: A Biography, by Axel Madsen, p.61.
11 November, "Inside the Forest," rev. of The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography, by Gregor von Rezzori, p.67.

The Spectator

6 January, "Winners of the French Prizes," p.27.
20 January, "A Writer in Search of a Subject," rev. of The People and Uncollected Stories, by Bernard Malamud, pp.31-32.
27 January, "The Appeal of Other People's Awful Families," rev. of The Other Side, by Mary Gordon, p.37.
3 March, "Eminent Victorians and Others," rev. of Possession: A Romance, by A. S. Byatt, p.35.
7 April, "...and Dangerous to Know," rev. of Chicago Loop, by Paul Theroux, p.39.
14 April, "Three Women and a Dragon," rev. of Three Times Table, by Sara Maitland, pp.33-34.
21 April, "Spraying into the Path of Real Danger," rev. of Lies of Silence, by Brian Moore, p.31.
26 May, "He Was to Her a Heroine, She to Him a Hero," rev. of Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters, 1900-1915, ed. Lyall H. Powers, pp.30-31.
14 July, "Lacking in Passion," rev. of Fellow Passengers: A Novel in Portraits, by Louis Auchincloss, p.28.
11 August, "A Master Unraveller of Balls of String," rev. of Those in Peril, by Nicolas Freeling, p.23.
1 September, "Daisy Pulls it Off," rev. of The Gate of Angels, by Penelope Fitzgerald, pp.31-32.
15 September, "Catastrophe but Not the Death of Hope," rev. of Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd, p.38.
20 October, "The Different Ages of Women," rev. of Friend of My Youth, by Alice Munro, pp.37-38.
27 October, "Ending the Heartache," rev. of Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike, pp.28-29.
24 November, "Living in the Mirror City," rev. of Janet Frame: An Autobiography, pp.39-40.

1991

The Observer

27 January, "Glad Hearts and Gallantry," rev. of Lucien Leuwen, by Stendhal, trans. H. L. R. Edwards, p.59.
24 February, "Portrait of the Hero as a Fallible Man," rev. of The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762, by Maurice Cranston, p.63.
3 March, "Sloughing Off Despond," rev. of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron, p.59.
10 March, "Adventures of a Virile Woman," rev. of Colette: A Life, by Herbert Lottman, p.60.
14 July, "All the World Her Stage," rev. of Being Divine: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt, by Ruth Brandon, p.63.
28 July, "A Passionate Tragedy of the Revolution," rev. of Theroigne de Mericourt: A Melancholic Woman during the French Revolution, by Elisabeth Roudinesco, trans. Martin Thom, p.51.
11 August, "Aphrodisiac of Genius: Vienna's Resplendent Energiser of Heroes and the Architectual Golden Boy Who got the Push," rev. of The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfel, by Susanne Keegan, p.51.
24 November, "Miss Bart Blunders," rev. of The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, p.63.

The Spectator

30 March, "Unfortunate Women of Cambridge," rev. of Air and Angels, by Susan Hill, pp.28-29.
6 April, "Five Tales of One City," rev. of City of the Mind, by Penelope Lively, pp.30-31.
13 April, "Letters to Abroad," rev. of The Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam, pp.26-27.
4 May, "Alone in a Valuable House," rev. of Family Money, by Nina Bawden, pp.30-31.
11 May, "The Battle of All Mothers," rev. of The Battle for Christabel, by Margaret Forster, p.38.
1 June, "Enduring What Can't Be Mended," rev. of Two Lives, by William Trevor, p.28.
3 August, "Old-Fashioned and Full of Charm," rev. of Letters from Constance, by Mary Hocking, p.31.
14 September, "Death and Corruption in Bath," rev. of The Summer of the Royal, by Isabel Colegate, pp.34-35.
21 September, "Adopting the Necessary Disguise," rev. of Second Best, by David Cook, pp.31-32.
12 October, "More than Sugar and Spice," rev. of Wilderness Tips, by Margaret Atwood, pp.36-37.
26 October, "The Good, the Drab and the Tacky," rev. of Saint Maybe, by Anne Tyler, p.36.
23 November, "Christmas Books I," p.39.
21/28 December, "Prize-Winning Novels of France," p.80.

1992

The Observer

5 April, "Triumph of the Genius and Journeyman," rev. of The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, by Patrick Marnham, p.63.
26 April, "The Firm Embrace of the Eighteenth Century," rev. of Diderot: A Critical Biography, by P. N. Furbank, p.57.

The Spectator

8 February, "How to Be Very, Very Popular," rev. of A Dubious Legacy, by Mary Wesley, pp.30-31.
25 April, "Messages from Beyond and a Poinsettia," rev. of Inheritance, by David Pryce-Jones, p.41.
2 May, "An Unreconstructed Romantic," rev. of Murder in Estoril, by Edith Templeton, pp.29-30.
6 June, "Studying Foreign Relations," rev. of Sprit Weddings, by Gillian Tindall, pp.43-44.
27 June, "Tracing Grandmother's Footsteps," rev. of I Lock My Door Upon Myself, by Joyce Carol Oates, p.29.
8 August, "Exiles from the Fatherland," rev. of Telling Only Lies, by Jessica Mann, p.23.
29 August, "A Phenomenon Not a Genius," rev. of Trollope, by Victoria Glendinning, p.31.
12 September, "Treating Still with So Much Sweet Behaviour," rev. of A Silent Joy, by Elizabeth Jenkins, p.45.
19 September, "Unable to Bear Very Much Reality," rev. of The Children of Men, by P. D. James, p.31.
17 October, "Men without Women," rev. of A Rather English Marriage, by Angela Lambert, p.28.
21 November, "Christmas Books I" p.38.
19/26 December, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," pp.76-77.

1993

The Observer

21 February, "Conversing Canvases," rev. of Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789, by Michael Levey, p.62.
18 April, "The Choosing of Joy, Refusing of Despair," rev. of Some Other Rainbow, by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell, p.61.
30 May, "No Happy Ending for Babes in the Ward," rev. of Murder on Ward Four, by Nick Davies, p.61.
4 July, "Holiday Reading," p.61.
15 August, "Belle's letters envelope the spirit of an age," rev. of Isabelle de Charriere, by C. P. Courtney, p.48.
5 September, "Enlightening," rev. of This Is Not a Story and Other Stories, by Denis Diderot, p.52.

The Spectator

27 February, "Looking Back in Sorrow," rev. of Memories of the Ford Administration, by John Updike, p.30.
6 March 1993, "O for the Voice to Be Still," rev. of The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court, by Peter Taylor, pp.25-26.
13 March, "Telling Tales out of School," rev. of Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence, trans. Francis Steegmuller and Barbara Bray.
20 March, "A Bestseller and a House," rev. of Daphne du Maurier, by Margaret Forster, pp.35-36.
29 May, "Suspicion Torment My Soul," rev. of Second Spring, by Max Egremont, p.31.
24 July, "An American Classic," rev. of Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World, by Carol Brightman, pp.25-26.
31 July, "She Can Fill the Unforgiving Minute with Sixty Seconds' Worth," rev. of The Laughing Academy, by Shena Mackay, p.28.
4 September, "A Family and Its Good Fortune," rev. of The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields, pp.28-29.
16 October, "Three Little Maids from School," rev. of The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood, p.32.
23 October, "Repose in Taboo'd by Anxiety," rev. of Migraine, by Oliver Sacks, p.33.
20 November, "Christmas Books I," p.37.

1994

London Review of Books

21 July, "On High Heels Up Vesuvius," rev. of Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet: Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse, by Francine du Plessix Gray, p.18. Reprinted in Soundings (1997), pp.178-184.

The Observer

6 March, "The Death of Innocence," rev. of The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case, by David James Smith, p.18.
26 June, "A Genius for Happiness," rev. of Stendhal, by Jonathan Keates, p.16.

The Spectator

1 January, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," pp.27-28.
15 January, "It's Nicer, Much Nicer, than Nice," rev. of The Matisse Stories, by A. S. Byatt, pp.28-29.
12 February, "My Husband Became a Zombie," rev. of Affliction, by Fay Weldon, pp.29-30.
12 March, "The Age of Innocence," rev. of Land Girls, by Angela Huth, p.28.
14 May, "Even Less Fiction than Stranger," rev. of Le Premier Homme, by Albert Camus, pp.40-41.
11 June, "Her Worldly Trask is Done," rev. of Mothers and Other Lovers, by Joanna Briscoe, pp.49-50.
25 June, "Unflinching in the Face of Disaster," rev. of Mother's Boys, by Margaret Forster, pp.30-31.
3 September, "Appearances to the Contrary," rev. of Going into a Dark House, by Jane Gardam, p.36.
24 September, "Here We Go Round the Prickly Pairs," rev. of Various Miracles, by Carol Shields, p.41.
5 November, "A Servant or a Saint," rev. of The Good Husband, by Gail Godwin, pp.51-52.
19 Nov. 1994, "Christmas Books I," p.47.

1995

The Spectator

4 February, "Hamlet, Though Not Meant to Be," rev. of The Prince of West End Avenue, by Alan Isler, pp.28-29.
4 March, "We Have Stood Apart Stufiously," rev. of An Experiment in Love, by Hilary Mantel, pp.36-37.
29 April, "An Escape, but More than Escapism," rev. of Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler, p.35.
6 May, "The Story of a Knee," rev. of Therapy, by David Lodge, pp.39-40.
13 May, "Taboo or Not Taboo," rev. of Intimacy, by Julian Rathbone, p.37.
24 June, "A Superb Achievement: A Reconsideration of Kazuo Ishiguro's Unappreciated Novel, The Unconsoled," rev. of The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro, pp.40-41.
15 July, "Following in the Steps of the Master," rev. of Shards of Memory, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, pp.33-34.
26 August, "Active and Passive," rev. of Winter Journey, by Isabel Colegate, pp.28-30.
30 September, "Praise Him for His Well-Turned Symbols," rev. of The Liquidator, by Ferdinand Mount, p.37.
11 November, "Survivng the Sixties," rev. of Hearing Voices, by A. N. Wilson, p.47.
18 November, "Christmas Books I" p.45.
30 December, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," p.32.

1996

The Spectator

13 April, "Who's Left Holding the Baby ?," rev. of Faith Fox, by Jane Gardam, pp.34-35.
27 April, "Faith and the Cinema," rev. of In the Beauty of the Lilies, by John Updike, pp.33-34.
15 June, "Mothers and Daughters," rev. of Shadow Baby, by Margaret Forster, pp.40-41.
22 June, "Thoughts on a Dry Brain in a Dry Season," an essay on Penelope Fitzgerald, pp.35-36.
29 June, "A Memory of Yesterday's Pleasure," rev. of The Orchard on Fire, by Shena Mackay. pp.35-36.
3 August, "Rapture on the Lonely Shore," rev. of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Dmitri Nabokov, p.26.
17 August, "Too True to Be Good," rev. of The Arizona Game, by Georgina Hammick, pp.25-26.
14 September, "A Wretch like Her," rev. of Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood, p.36.
28 September, "In Need of a Few Dirty Tricks," rev. of The Archers: The True Story: The History of Radio's Most Famous Programme, by William Smethurst, p.46.
9 November, "Daughter's Eye View," rev. of Selected Stories, by Alice Munro, p.47.
16 November, "Christmas Books I" p.42.

The Sunday Times

18 February, "A Force of Nature," rev. of Zola: A Life, by Frederick Brown, Section 7 (Books), pp.1-2.

1997

London Review of Books

19 June, "Mme de Blazac and I," pp.16-17.
31 July, “Fearless Solipsist,Ep.24.

The Spectator

4 January, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," p.37.
15 March, "If we Shadows Have Offended," rev. of A Nice Change, by Nina Bawden, pp.40-41.
26 April, "Life at the Blunt End," rev. of The Untouchable, by John Banville, pp.39-40.
24 May, "The Sleeve Stays Unravelled," rev. of The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe, p.37.
7 June, "A Detective of the Past," rev. of Dora Bruder, by Patrick Modiano, p.49.
19 July, "A Tease of the First Order," rev. of The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve, p.34.
30 August, "Desire and Pursuit," rev. of Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan, pp.28-29.
13 September, "Adrift in the Male Doldrums," rev. of Women with Men, by Richard Ford, pp.36-37.
27 September, "Farewell, My Lovely," rev. of Night Train, by Martin Amis, pp.36-37.

The Sunday Times

19 October, "From Here to Sublimity: Anita Brookner Reads a Superlative Life of Victor Hugo, a Writer Deemed, Even in His Lifetime, Immortal, Elemental and Superhuman," pp.8/8-8/9.

The Times Literary Supplement

11 April, "The Pleasure of Passing Through," rev. of The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant, by Mavis Gallant, p.25.

1998

The Daily Telegraph

16 May 1998, "Book of the Century 19: Anita Brookner Makes Her Choice," rev. of A la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust, p.3.

The Spectator

3 January, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," p.31.
17 January, "Looking Tragedy in the Face," rev. of The Collected Stories, by Grace Paley, p.33.
31 January, "Magician of the Humdrum," rev. of Toward the End of Time, by John Updike, p.39.
14 March, "The Unmasking of Gerald," rev. of The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, by Barbara Vine, pp.36-37.
28 March, "The Company She Keeps," rev. of The Travelling Horn, by Barbara Trapido, p.30.
9 May, "A Powerful Revenant," rev. of Your Blue-Eyed Boy, by Helen Dunmore, pp.38-39.
6 June 1998, "In the Steps of Zola," rev. of Shadows on the Hudson, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Joseph Sherman, pp.31-32.
13 June, "Death in the Sun Postponed," rev. of The Last Resort, by Alison Lurie, p.40.
27 June, "The Feel-Good Factor," rev. of A Patchwork Planet, by Anne Tyler, pp.34-35.
29 August, "Saying Goodbye to Proust," rev. of Charlotte Gray, by Sebastian Faulks, p.28.
12 September, "All Good Pals and Jolly Bad Company," rev. of Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan, p.39.
26 September, "The Consequences of a Stroll," rev. of Kitty and Virgil, by Paul Bailey, pp.44-45.
24 October, "The Way We Live Now," rev. of Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore, pp.46-47.
31 October, "A Heroine Who Declines," rev. of The Service of Clouds, by Susan Hill, p.53.
21 November, "Christmas Books I," p.38.

The Sunday Times

23 August, "English Eccentrics,"rev. of A Sight for Sore Eyes, by Ruth Rendell, p.8.
6 September, "Staying Power," rev. of Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion, by Elaine Denby, p.6.

1999

The Spectator

2 January, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," p.35.
16 January, "Days of Elegance," rev. of New York Mosaic: Three Novels, by Isabel Bolton, p.35.
6 February, "The Heat in the Kitchen," rev. of A Slight and Delicate Creature, by Margaret Cook, p.27.
19 June, "Knowing the Score in Old New York," rev. of The Puttermesser Papers, by Cynthia Ozick, p.44.
26 June, "Digging Up Mummy," rev. of The Memory Box, by Margaret Forster, p.34.
17 August, "Violence with Decorum," rev. of The Crime of Olga Arbyelina, by Andrei Makine, trans. Geoffrey Strachan, pp.30-31.
7 August, "Artfully, Seriously Ludic," rev. of Headlong, by Michael Frayn, pp.34-35.
28 August, "Signposts Pointing the Wrong Way," rev. of Destiny, by Tim Parks, pp.36-37.
20 November, "Books of the Year," p.47.
30 October, "Top Marks All Round," rev. of A Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography, by P. D. James, pp.57-58.
11 December, "The Master of the Indirect," rev. of Henry James: Collected Stories, Volumes I and II, with the introductions by John Bayley, pp.47-48.
18/25 December, "Pursued Across Europe by Ghosts and Unease," rev. of Vertigo, by W. G. Sebald, trans. Michael Hulse, pp.65-66.

The Sunday Times

24 January, "TB or not TB ?," rev. of The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis, by Thomas Dormandy, p.7.
7 February, "Why Does Proust Matter ?," rev. of Proust, by Edmund White, p.5.
20 June, "Wealth Warning," rev. of The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture, by J. Mordaunt Crook, pp.2-3.

2000

The Daily Telegraph

23 December, "'What a Novel My Life Is !' : Napoleon Was Torn between the Pen and the Sword, Says Anita Brookner," rev. of Napoleon the Novelist, by Andy Martin, p.3.

The Spectator

1 January, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," pp.30-31.
8 January, "Perpetual Youth and Effortless Artistry," rev. of More Matter: Essays and Criticism, by John Updike, p.32.
22 January, "The Confidence of a Lone Wolf," rev. of Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, vol. IV, 1918-1922, ed. Philip Kolb, trans. Joanna Kilmartin, pp.28-29.
12 August, "Escaping from Resentments," rev. of Every Eye, by Isobel English, p.35.
2 September, "Crimes Committed, Punishments Awarded," rev. of Piranha to Scurfy, by Ruth Rendell, p.38.
7 October, "Artfully Administered Shocks," rev. of The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood, pp.50-51.
18 November, "Christmas Books I," p.53.
30 December, "Recent Publications from France," pp.27-28.

Yale Review

October, vol. 88, issue 4, "The Brothers Goncourt: The Breakdown of Joy," pp.28-42. Reprinted in Romanticism and Its Discontents (2000), pp.120-139.

2001

The Spectator

10 February, "Angels of Life and Death," rev. of They Came Like Swallows, by William Maxwell, pp.41-2.
21 April, "Too Narrow the Way," rev. of Strait Is the Gate, by Andre Gide, trans. Dorothy Bussy, p.39.
28 April, "Unique New York," rev. of On Green Dolphin Street, by Sebastian Faulks, p.37.
19 May, "Dutch Decency and Dignity," rev. of Some Day Tomorrow, by Nicholas Freeling, pp.40-41.
2 June, "A Formula That Shows Its Age," rev. of Back When We Were Grownups, by Anne Tyler, pp.40-41.
15 September, "A Morbid Procedure," rev. of Atonement, by Ian McEwan, p.44.
29 September, "Sexual Tourism a Gogo," rev. of Plateforme, by Michel Houellebecq, pp.40-41.
6 October, "A Journey without Maps," rev. of Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald, pp.64-65.
20 October, "The Intolerable Wrestle with Words," rev. of Flaubert: A Life, by Geoffrey Wall, p.55.
3 November, "Much Matter within a Small Compass," rev. of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Munro, pp.52-53.
17 November, "Christmas Books I," p.43.
29 December, "Current French Fiction," p.39.

2002

The Spectator

9 March, "'I'm the Other One,'" rev. of Negotiating with the Dead, by Margaret Atwood, pp.44-45.
20 April, "Insouciance of a True Hero," rev. of Any Human Heart, by William Boyd, pp.41-42.
4 May, "Women Talking to Women," rev. of Unless, by Carol Shields, pp.39-40.
3 August, rev. of Wake Up, by Tim Pears, p.35.
31 August, rev. of Light Years, by James Salter, p.36.
26 October, "Southern Gothic Revenge," rev. of The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt, pp.54-5.
16 November, "Christmas Books I," p.46.
28 December, "Prize-Winning Novels from France," p.38.

2003

The Spectator

11 January, "Traditional but Far from Square," rev. of The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates, p.29.
1 March, "Tale of a Survivor," rev. of Diary of an Ordinary Woman, by Margaret Forster, p.52.
9 August, "The Way They Lived Then," rev. of Good Faith, by Jane Smiley, p.40, 42.
30 August, "Calm After the Storm," rev. of Double Vision, by Pat Barker, p.29.
15 November, "Christmas Books 1," p.46.
15 November, "Travelling Far without Finding Home," rev. of The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard, p.60.
29 November, "A Season in Hell," rev. of Tomber sept fois, se relever huit, by Philippe Labro, p.53.
27 December, "New Books in France," p.37.

2004

The Spectator

3 January, "A Disturbing Absence of Disturbance," rev. of The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler, pp.29-30.
12 June, "Back to the Good Old Whodunnit," rev. of The Various Haunts of Men, by Susan Hill, p.44.
20 November, "Christmas Books," p.39.

2005

The Spectator

1 January, "General Fiction from France," pp.28-29.
29 January, "A Day in the Life of a Surgeon," rev. of Saturday, by Ian McEwan, p.38.
9 April, "A Nest of Ungentle Essex Folk," rev. of Minoraur, by Barbara Vine, pp.36-37.
2 July, "An Experiment in Old Acquaintance," rev. of The Proust Project, edited by Andre Aciman, p.34.
10 September, "Take-over Bid by a Stranger," rev. of Slow Man, by J. M. Coetzee, p.45.
22 October, "The Latest of a Long Line," rev. of The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Gavin Bowd, p.54.
19 November, "Christmas Books," p.44.
31 December, "French Prize Novels," p.38.

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