Essays

Essays

• Essays
  • Guest Writers
    • Zoe Williams
      • The lady and the vamp
    • Russell Davies
      • Pleasurebubble Hubbyhouse
    • Bryan Appleyard
      • Monica Bellucci interview
      • Culture and Roger Scruton
    • Marina Hyde
      • Do Not Resuscitate
      • Celebrity Rehab
      • Fame Knows No Bounds
      • A Little Piece of Fame
      • Move Over, Milton
      • Rich Pickings
      • In the Frame
      • Paris Hilton Goes On
      • Trudie and Sting
      • Pete Doherty Paints
      • Virtual Illusion
    • Bruce Beresford
      • Filming the Book
      • BB Website
    • Michael Frayn
      • Ars longa, screwe stronga
      • The literature of coexistentialism
      • Behind the myth — mythtier thtill
      • The Europaean
      • Ye Globe Theatre
      • Ha Lo and the electric talker
      • Inside the Krankenhaus
      • The bad and the beautiful
      • A farewell to arms
    • Antonia Quirke
      • Interviewing Jeff Bridges
      • Ken Russell
      • David Thomson
      • Carrie Fisher
      • Kenneth Branagh
      • Failing to connect
      • Traumatic Drive
      • Exquisite Monotone
    • Frederic Raphael
      • From "The Benefits of Doubt"
      • From "Cuts and Bruises"
      • Foreword to "In Love"
        • Extracts from "In Love"
    • Jonathan Meades
      • Blade Runner’s sets
      • Less is less
      • This year in Marienbad
      • The style of Robert Elms
      • Flogging dog food
      • Bloke, bloker, blokest
    • Peter Bogdanovich
      • B-movies
      • Best US films of 1939
      • Cary Grant
      • Ernst Lubitsch
      • Preston Sturges
    • Laura Cumming
      • Truth and Portraiture
      • Hiroshige’s Jigsaw
      • Millais
      • Paint Passion
      • Video on the Web
      • Saul Steinberg
      • Paul Kessling
      • Peter Doig
      • Wyndham Lewis
      • Tracey Emin
    • Vicki Woods
      • A spa is born
      • Aktinografia: an odyssey
      • Glossy white worms
      • Handbags and glad rags
      • Let’th jutht thiddown…
      • Made-up story
      • Tony Blair will convert
      • My African baby
    • Nichola Deane
      • Casket of Dreams
      • Sweeney in the basement
      • Rilke's Hammershǿi
      • Don Paterson
      • Scott Fitzgerald
      • The Engine and the Roses
      • Triptych
      • Recent poems
    • Francis Wheen
      • Unfinished business in the Balkans
      • Semi-detached
      • Sodomy and the lash
      • The bottom line
      • Britain's executioners
      • A theory to end all theories
      • Black men can't jump
  • Prose Finds
    • Murdoch in the Rue Morgue
    • Binyavanga Wainaina
    • P.J. O’Rourke
    • Noel Pearson
    • Patrick Smith
    • David Hepworth
    • Pascal Bruckner
    • Paul Berman
    • Mark Steyn
    • William Deresiewicz
    • Wall Street Journal
    • Marcel Reich-Ranicki
    • Jeffrey Rosen
    • Joan Bakewell
    • John Rawls
    • Nicholson Baker
    • Richard King
    • Ali Smith
    • David Gilmour
    • Rachel Cooke
    • A.A. Gill
    • David Free
    • Gregory A. Petsko
    • Zadie Smith
    • Alice Gregory
    • Don Paterson
  • CJ Articles since 2005
    • Current Articles of Interest
      • In the Name of Honour
      • On Anti-Semitism
      • On the Bali Bombing
      • On Isaiah Berlin
      • Exit John Howard
      • LRB Liberalism Letter
      • Guardian Extremism Letter
      • TLS Extremism Letter
      • The Drumming of an Army
      • Still Here
    • Other Recent Articles
      • The Kael Style
      • Broadway in One Book
      • Words Fail in the Pacific
      • Exit Peter Porter
      • Michael Longley's New Book
      • Christian Wiman’s New Book
      • Stephen Edgar's New Book
      • Les Murray's New Book
      • Poetry Heaven, Election Hell
      • Mad about 'Mad Men'
      • Updike's Last Poems
      • Hollywood Love Story
      • On James Garner
      • DVD Booklet
      • Sydney Highlights
      • Laureate's Jubilee
      • NYT By the Book
      • Bernini Rides Again
  • Lectures and Speeches
    • Lectures:
    • The Meaning of Recognition
    • Our First Book
    • Speeches:
    • The Words Count
    • Serious Brain Operation
    • Making Programmes the World Wants
    • Preaching to the Converted
    • On the Eve of Disaster
    • Chip, Chip, Chip
    • Acceptance Speech
  • CJ Telegraph TV