Perhaps being persuadable is overrated—at least if it means “coming to accept the unacceptable.” This is an edition of the ...

Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” ...

The theme of bad books versus bad readers runs through my recent publication Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, which I ...

Changing your mind is a running theme across the book’s four other sections – Words, Politics, Books and Age and Time – which are all provocative and entertaining. The section on politics is ...

Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my ...