Julian the Apostate may have been one of the less lurid Roman emperors, but he has nonetheless enjoyed a robust afterlife in art. He has been the subject of a play by Henrik Ibsen (“Emperor and ...

Julian Barnes is a suave and polished stylist who has been called the "chameleon of British letters" for the sheer versatility of his output. His 10th novel, "Arthur & George," is an elegantly ...

LONDON (AP) — British writer Julian Barnes won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for his novel “The Sense of an Ending.” Judges announced the winner of the 50,000 pound ($82,000) ...

Julian Barnes made his only public appearance of the year on Thursday night, at the Institute of Technology and Engineering, an imposing red brick building overlooking the Thames. Barnes, who won the ...

Polished and classically structured, the 11 exquisite stories in this collection are as stylish as any of Barnes's creations, while also possessed of a pleasing heft. Told from a dazzling array of ...

The book centers on Tony Webster, an Englishman in his sixties, who is unexpectedly bequeathed the diary of Adrian, his childhood friend who had committed suicide forty years earlier. The will is from ...

Julian Barnes says that, while he “has taught himself a fair amount about painting over fifty years,” he “only really has one shot in his locker about each painter.” He told me this on a recent ...

Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Julian Barnes tells us, once very reluctantly accepted an invitation, writing, "If we're going, then let's go, as the parrot said to the cat, which was ...

The Man Booker Prize is given annually to a novel by an author in Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations. It is highly prestigious, as well as often highly contentious and controversial.

This barbarously intelligent, first-person meditation on mortality by English novelist Julian Barnes is a rare thing in literature. Whether readers will have the stomach for it is another matter. As ...