John Sutherland

Jan 5, 2025 | newstatesman.com | John Sutherland

The obituaries of the critic and author David Lodge, who died on 1 January aged 89, have been a long time writing and relate the facts scrupulously. He has earned the reporting of his passing as a fact of national importance. Nonetheless what I’ve read does not, I feel, entirely capture the essence of Lodgeism. In my twenties (I’m three years his junior) I read Lodge’s first critical treatise, The Language of Fiction (1966) and his novel The British Museum is Falling Down (1965).

Nov 14, 2024 | johnsutherlandauthor.co.uk | John Sutherland

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Aug 19, 2024 | policinginsight.com | John Sutherland

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Aug 15, 2024 | policecommander.wordpress.com | John Sutherland

Another day, another set of grim headlines about the Metropolitan Police – this time as the consequence of a report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies, telling us that the Met is failing in almost every area of its work.

Apr 17, 2024 | spectator.com.au | John Sutherland

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives The Bodley Head, pp.380, 25 For some readers this book will have the charm of the Antiques Roadshow. Adam Smyth, professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford, presents with caressing attention to technical detail an array of illustrious book people. They may be unfamiliar names to those who don’t know a colophon from a cauliflower, but he makes his characters wholly accessible.