On the 50th Anniversary of Barry Lyndon, an Essay by Alexander Larman

Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon and we are excited to publish ‘Barry Lyndon at 50’, an essay by Alexander Larman, author of Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie, a new biography to be published in January 2026 to honour the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death.  Larman is an historian and literary critic whose previous books include the acclaimed ‘Windsors trilogy’, which examines the British Royal Family from the onset of World War II through the coronation of Elizabeth II, and has written biographies of Lord Rochester as well as Lord Byron.

All of us here at Gothic Keats Press are ardent admirers of Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon—many of us consider it a true cinematic masterpiece—and we are honoured to publish Larman’s essay, which you can read here.