English Editions (View Translations)
Love, etc. London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
£15.99.
Love, etc. Canada: Random House Canada, 2000. $32.95.
Love, etc. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
$23.00.
Love, etc. Bath, England: Chivers Press;
Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, 2001. Pp. 268. (Large print
edition).
Love, etc. London: Picador, 2001. Pp. 249.
Love, etc. New York: Vintage International,
2002. Pp. 227.
Love, etc. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2002.
Pp. 227.
Reviews of the French Edition
(Special thanks to Vanessa
Guignery and Mercure
de France)
Garcin, Jérôme. "Visite à Julian Barnes: Des oies,
des crabes et un perroquet." Le Nouvel Observateur, 3-9
janvier 2002: 62-65. http://www.nouvelobs.com/articles/p1939/a8807.html
Neuhoff, Éric. "Messieurs les Anglais."
Madame Figaro, 5 janvier 2002: 28.
Villovitch, Héléna. "Julian Barnes:
«Etc.», la suite." Elle, 7 janvier 2002.
Coppermann, Annie. "Jules et Jim à Londres." Les
Echos, 8 janvier 2002: 54.
"Dix ans après: Julian Barnes." Mercure
de France, 9 janvier 2002. http://www.mercuredefrance.fr/titres/dixanstitre.htm
Clavel, André. "Rendez-vous
avec Barnes." L'Express, 10 janvier 2002: 49. Read
an excerpt in French
Corty, Bruno. "Le couple en métamorphose." Le
Figaro littéraire, 10 janvier 2002: 3. (Interview on the same
page: "Julian Barnes: 'L'amour sans jalousie, ça n'existe pas!'")
Clavel, André. "Léger,
malicieux, le nouveau Julian Barnes." Le Temps des livres,
12 janvier 2002.
de Saint Vincent, Bertrand. "Julian Barnes." Figaro
magazine, 12 janvier 2002: 68-69.
Delorme, Marie-Laure. "A nos amours, dix ans après."
Le Journal du Dimanche, 13 janvier 2002: 29.
Eckert, Yaël. "Julian Barnes, le vaudeville au
sommet." La Croix, 17 janvier 2002: 20.
Romain, Maxime. "Littérature anglo-saxonne."
La Marseillaise, 20 janvier 2002.
Noiville, Florence. "Retrouvailles
conjugales." Le Monde des Livres, 25 janvier 2002.
Mony, Olivier. "Inventaire avant liquidation."
Sud-ouest Dimanche, 27 janvier 2002: 12.
Juffin, Bruno. "Dur, dur, d’être un quadra." Les
Inrockuptibles, 30 janvier 2002: 60.
Hitchings, Henry. "La France de Julian Barnes."
Courrier International, 31 janvier - 6 février 2002.
Fiemeyer, Isabelle. "Que
reste-t-il de leurs amours?" Lire (www.lire.fr), février
2002.
Sanchez, Serge. "Dix ans après." Magazine
littéraire 406 (février 2002): 76.
"Les Britanniques Julian Barnes et David Lodge
tendent un miroir a la fois pittoresque et désabusé
aux quadras hétéros de leur génération."
Vogue, février 2002.
Aubert, Marie-Caroline. "Envie de lire." Marie
Claire, février 2002.
de Decker, Jacques. "Un vaudeville en apartés."
Le Soir, 6 février 2002: 38.
Lecoultre, Cécile. "Dix ans après,
Barnes séduit toujours." 24 Heures, 6 février 2002.
"Dix ans de nostalgie, etc." Paris
Match, 14 février 2002.
Simon, Geneviève. "Julian Barnes, côté
France." La Libre Belgique, 23 Mai 2002: 8.
Reviews of the German Edition:
Behrens, Volker. "Darüber reden - aber
nicht über alles." Neuen Zürcher Zeitung 22 March 2002.
Read the review: http://www.nzz.ch/2002/03/22/fe/page-article81R0Q.html
Scobel, Gert. "Julian Barnes: Liebe usw."
Hessischer Rundfunk.
Reviews of the American and Canadian Editions:
Timberg, Scott. "With a Tip of the Hat to Kurosawa."
Hartford Courant 28 January 2001. Interview
with Barnes about Love, etc.
Charles, Ron. "A Valentine letter bomb." The
Christian Science Monitor (8 February 2001): 19.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/02/08/p19s1.htm
Kakutani, Michiko. "An Old Love Triangle Reassembled
in a New Decade." The New York
Times (9 February 2001): E-45.
Cole, Lloyd. "Resist Temptation To Scrap It; 'Love,
Etc.' Worth Enduring An Offensive Character." Hartford Courant
(11 February 2001).
Hanrahan, Phil. "Love triangle enters heart's
many chambers." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11 February
2001): 06E. http://www.jsonline.com/enter/books/reviews/feb01/bk.love11020901.asp
Levi, Jonathan. "What Makes the World Go Round."
Los Angeles Times (11 February 2001): 7.
Uhland, Vicky. "For Barnes, Life Is a Sequel."
Rocky Mountain News (18 February 2001): 2E. Online version
titled: "A British sequel -- sort of."
Benfer, Amy. "'Love, etc.' by Julian Barnes."
Salon.com (21 February 2001).
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/02/21/barnes/
Kissel, Howard. "HEY, READER, LISTEN UP ... A
love-triangle novel that truly speaks to us." Daily News
(New York) (25 February 2001): 19.
Birkerts, Sven. "Talking It Over Some More."
New York Times (25 February 2001): 8 (sect. 7).
Stead Sellers, Frances. "Still Talking It Over."
Book World (Washington Post) (25 February 2001): T10.
Ball, Maggie. "Yoghurt Despair: Julian Barnes'
Love, Etc." The Compulsive
Reader [February 2001] http://www.compulsivereader.com/article1001.html
"Interview with Julian Barnes." Random House
[February 2001].
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375411615&view=qa
Begley, Adam. "What Lies Beneath." Details
19(5) (March 2001): 86, 88. Interview with Barnes.
Twardy, C. A. "Three characters back together,
each with a view of calamity." Atlanta Constitution (4
March 2001): 4D.
Podgurski, David. "Dust Jacket Required." Stamford
Advocate (4 March 2001). Interview with Barnes.
Lopate, Leonard. "Interview with Julian Barnes."
New York & Company: WNYC (7 March 2001).
Hansen, Liane. "Interview with Julian Barnes."
Weekend Edition Sunday (11 March 2001).
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/ (Select "Archives" and search
for the March 11, 2001 program.)
Salter Reynolds, Susan. "For the 'Love' of Intimacy
and Good Manners." Los Angeles Times (11 March 2001): E1.
Alford, Steven E. "Three views on love and life's
miscellany." The Houston Chronicle (18 March 2001): 14.
Anderson, Jon. "Letter to the Editor: 'Love Medicine,
Etc.'" New York Times
(25 March 2001): 4 (sect. 7).
Rea, Steven. "'Love, etc,' by Julian Barnes."
Philadelphia Inquirer (28 March 2001).
Peck, Dale. "Literature's Cuckold." The New
Republic (2 April 2001): 32-.
Rea, Steven. "Wry Look at 'Love' Is Brillian Theater,
Fiction." Arizona Republic (8 April 2001): J4.
Kelly, Christopher. "'Love, etc,' by Julian Barnes."
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (25 April 2001).
Landon, Philip. "Love, etc." Review of Contemporary
Fiction 21(2) (Summer 2001): 167.
Reviews of the British Edition:
Herbert, Susannah. "Hello! We've met before."
Daily Telegraph (22 July 2000): 4.
Shilling, Jane. "A trio for married voices." Sunday
Telegraph (23 July 2000): 13.
Adams, Tim. "The eternal triangle." The Observer
(23 July 2000)
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4043244,00.html
BBC Radio 4 Front Row. (27 July 2000).
Coldstream, John. "'I'd be very jumpy if I wasn't
writing'." Daily Telegraph (London). (27 July 2000).
Cunningham, Valentine. "Sobering, jolting, marrow-ahakingly
magnificent." The Independent (London). (28 July 2000).
Wroe, Nicholas. "Literature's Mister Cool." Guardian
(29 July 2000). Coldstream, John. "Feature."
Daily Telegraph (London). (29 July 2000): 5.
Taylor, D. J. "Not the end of the affair." Sunday
Times (London). (30 July 2000).
Sutcliffe, Thomas. "I met a man who wasn't there."
The Independent (London). (1 August 2000): 7.
Bradbury, Dominic. "Talking it over about writing,
etc" The Times (London). (2 August 2000).
Hawtree, Christopher. "Words: Polder, n." The
Independent (London). (2 August 2000): 14.
Briefly mentions Barnes's previous promise
in Hawtree's "Word" column to use the word "irk" in his next novel.
Hawtree mentions that Love, etc does not contain the word.
Hawtree, Christopher. "Words: Tea-Bag, n." The
Independent (London). (3 August 2000): 16.
Briefly discusses the use of the word "tea-bag"
in Love, etc. Hawtree mistakenly claims that Stuart's ex-wife
Terri refers to Americans as "tea-bags", when she is really talking
about the British: "We don't get too many of you coming through,
so we buy into the stereotype, which is that Brits are snobby and
stick together and don't pick up the tab for drinks if they can
possibly avoid it. Oh, and most of the men are tea-bags, if you'll
pardon the expression" (p. 34).
Blacker, Terence. "Call Me a Slut, But Julian
Just Can't Satisfy Me." The Independent (London). (4 August
2000): 4.
Briefly discusses Barnes's new novel in
an essay on the nature of the relationship between author and reader.
Hawtree, Christopher. "Words: News, n." The
Independent (London). (4 August 2000): 20.
Briefly discusses Oliver's observations
on the word "news" in Love, etc.
Showalter, Elaine. "Careless talk costs wives."
The Guardian (London). (5 August 2000): 8.
Woolaston, Graeme. "Time to catch up with the
lovers." The Herald (Glasgow). (5 August 2000): 15.
Lappin, Tom. "The Plot Thickens." Scotland
on Sunday. (6 August 2000): 26.
Marchand, Philip. "Love is a Monologue." The
Toronto Star (24 September 2000).
Cheong, Felix. "Let's talk about love, etc." The
Straits Times (Singapore) (7 October 2000): 29.
Sparks, Ben. "Julian Barnes' sequel short but
excellent." The Ottawa Citizen (15 October 2000): C17.
Redhill, Michael. "What's love got to do with
it?" The Southland Times (New Zealand) (16 December 2000):
26.
"Let's Talk about Love, etc: An interview with
Julian Barnes."
Amazon.co.uk Website.
The Books Unlimited webpage on Julian
Barnes:
http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-18,00.html
"Julian Barnes: The Truthful Liar" (Excerpts from
Meridian Writing) BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/highlights/001213_barnes.shtml
Includes a short audio excerpt!
Online Interviews
March 7, 2000 -- New York:
Julian Barnes in Conversation with Jay McInerney
A recording of the interview conducted in the Celeste Bartos Forum,
New York Public Library.
March 8, 2000 -- Boston:
Robert Birnbaum interviews Julian Barnes for an online magazine
called Identity Theory.
Additional Criticism
Kelly, Kathleen A. "Talk-Show Intimacy and
Narrative Technique in Julian Barnes's Talking It Over and Love,
etc." International
Journal of the Humanities, 5.10 (2007): 179-188.
