James Campbell

James Campbell is the author of Exiled in Paris and Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was for many years an editor and columnist at the Times Literary Supplement in London.

Maxwell’s Lives

  • James Campbell

High Art in the Age of Oprah

The case of Jonathan Franzen.

  • James Campbell

Alfred Nobel and His Prizes

Does literature really need a “gold standard”?

  • James Campbell

Behind the Beat

The pages of Neurotica.

  • James Campbell
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