D.J. Taylor

D. J. Taylor’s Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 and On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography were both published in the autumn. He tweets at @djtaylorwriter

Culture could not survive without such austere archivists

Counter-cultural survivor

An author who turned failure into success

Is there a book she doesn’t like?

From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age

Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals

Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it