Julian Barnes

Breakfast at Balthazar

Too sexy for his loafers? Dana Vachon on Spring Street.
Michael Nagle
Too sexy for his loafers? Dana Vachon on Spring Street.

Dana Vachon, the 28-year-old banker turned blogger turned novelist about town, was not wearing socks  read more »

The Case of the Sore Thumb— Elementary, My Dear Watson

The intelligent and historically alert Julian Barnes.
Ellen Warner
The intelligent and historically alert Julian Barnes.

For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet?  read more »

The Case of the Sore Thumb- Elementary, My Dear Watson

For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet?  read more »

The Lion in the Living Room: Uproar Over a Rug

I never realized my husband was so attached to our living-room rug-or could even have told you what  read more »

Good Manners or Good P.R.? Why Writers Say Thank You

This spring, as galleys of fall books piled up in media outlets around town, book reviewers played a  read more »