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

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

Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it

The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut

Not reactionary, just drawn that way

If Mike is in any way conspicuous, it is by virtue of his sheer inconspicuousness

Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world

Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell