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Julian Evans

Articles by Julian Evans

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Fiction - The infinite well

  • 23 January 2006

The Successor
Ismail Kadare Canongate, 224pp, £9.99
ISBN 1841957631

Fiction - Veiled hatred

  • 10 May 2004

Snow
Orhan Pamuk Faber & Faber, 436pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571220657

Fiction - A place to live intensely

  • 05 April 2004

Penguin Lost
Andrey Kurkov Harvill Press, 256pp, £10.99
ISBN 1843430959

European fiction - The sadness of the circus

  • 16 June 2003

The Half Brother
Lars Saabye Christensen Translated by Kenneth Steven Arcadia Books, 782pp, £12.99
ISBN 1900850745

Platform

  • 21 April 2003

W G Sebald, who died in a road accident at the end of 2001, is one of the most acclaimed writers of modern times. But for Julian Evans he is a charlatan and his books are untrue

Platform

  • 31 March 2003

Julian Evans on two major Continental writers who knew well the horrors of war but who, because of the conservatism of British publishing, remain unread in this country

Platform

  • 10 March 2003

Julian Evans on why British thriller writers of the 1930s, such as Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, offer a far better exploration of the nature of freedom than any other novelists

Platform

  • 03 February 2003

Chekhov attended to reality, not to "issues". We should remember that today when we ponder a little girl's death in east London. The first in a series of occasional columns

Notes towards a supreme fiction

  • 16 December 2002

"The reviewing of novels," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the white man's grave of journalism; it corresponds to building bridges in some impossible tropical climate." Julian Evans on David Lodge, Cyril Connolly and the vanishing art of the literary essay

Slave to passion

  • 30 September 2002

Pushkin: a biography
T J Binyon HarperCollins, 731pp, £30
ISBN 0002150840

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