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Author Archives: Jonathan Coe

David Kynaston, poet of postwar Britain

Modern history has never been more popular, but the scale and detail of David Kynaston’s work puts him in a league of his own

Jonathan Coe

June 19, 2013

Death by naturalism

How close can fiction come to describing reality? The British author BS Johnson embarked on a quest for absolute literary naturalism which ended in his suicide.

Jonathan Coe

February 20, 2003

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Author Archives: Jonathan Coe

David Kynaston, poet of postwar Britain

Death by naturalism

Johnson’s carelessness over Northern Ireland is an undeniable factor in the current violence

Lisa Nandy: How Labour will root a new foreign policy in the home front

The subversive philosophy of Simone Weil

Hong Kong: Britain must prepare now for a great wave of immigrants