NB by J.C. : A walk through the Times Literary Supplement by James Campbell the week from his prescient critique of

from his prescient critique of Stalin to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism

It reverberates to the sound of alarm and protest

Barbarossa is a masterwork that transforms our understanding of the Second World War and of the twentieth century

I started to think of [it] not as a celebrity memoir about addiction

The Prodigal Tongue is full of detail and colour

NB by J.C. : A walk through the Times Literary Supplement by James Campbell the week from his prescient critique ofThe NB column in the Times Literary Supplement, signed at the foot by J. C., occupied the back page of the paper for thirteen years. For a decade before that, it was in the middle pages. That's roughly 60,000 words a year for twenty three years. The purpose of the initials was not to disguise the author, but to offer complete freedom to the persona. J. C. was irreverent and whimsical. The column punctured pomposity, hypocrisy and cant in the literary