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D.J. Taylor
Book Review
The wild times on the late, great John Belushi’s most famous film
Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases
By D.J. Taylor
Book Review
Paul Theroux on Orwell’s life in Burma
As a piece of imaginary biography,
Burma Sahib
is atmospherically and decorously done
By D.J. Taylor
Books
In praise of George Gissing, the born exile
The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’
By D.J. Taylor
Book Review
Adam Sisman’s new John le Carré biography entertains and disappoints
While I expected the le Carré who emerges from it to be a womanizer, a fantasist and a self-server, I didn’t anticipate that he would be such a terrible bore
By D.J. Taylor
Books
Taking a trip to Russoville
Richard Russo doesn’t do fireworks. Dazzling metaphorical flights are not his thing
By D.J. Taylor
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