For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Julian Barnes

From the April 1992 Issue

Fair Treatment for the Belgian Sex Maniac

The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon

By Patrick Marnham

From the March 1994 Issue

Genuflexions

The Collected and Recollected Marc

By Mark Amory (ed)

From the November 1992 Issue

When He Sat Down His Tongue Came Out

The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin

By Anthony Thwaite (ed)

From the October 1998 Issue

Lost Her Strangeness

Zarafa: The True Story of a Giraffe's Journey from the Plains of Africa to the Heart of Post-Napoleonic France

By Michael Allin

From the October 1994 Issue

Did You Get Black Truffles on the Nose?

Chateau Latour: The History of a Great Vineyard 1331-1992

By Charles Higounet (ed) (Translated by Edmund Penning-Rowsell)

Haut-Brion

By Asa Briggs

From the May 1989 Issue

Butler Peels His Own Onion

The Remains of the Day

By Kazuo Ishiguro

From the December 1991 Issue

Two Spinsters Learn How to Enjoy Themselves Abroad

In the Vine Country

By Somerville and Ross

From the May 1997 Issue

The Game which Demands a Saintly Letting Go

Golf Dreams

By John Updike

From the August 1990 Issue

A Rage for Perfection

Taming the Talent

By Richard Evans

From the March 1996 Issue

Did Light Novels Finish the French Monarchy?

The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

By Robert Darnton

From the March 1991 Issue

Oy-oy-oy! Czech Mate

Too Loud a Solitude

By Bohumil Hrabal (Translated by Michael Henry Heim)