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Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates.
Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates. ... Here is how Martin Amis, in the long essay "Terror and Boredom: The Dependent ...
By Laura Miller
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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Martin Amis calls out Christopher Hitchens and other friends on the left for not giving full weight to the 20 million victims of Stalin's terror.
Martin Amis calls out Christopher Hitchens and other friends on the left for not giving ... For Martin Amis, in his new book "Koba the Dread: Laughter and the ...
By Charles Taylor
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
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With its much-hyped list of the Best Young American Writers, Granta may have nudged the most neurotic subgroup in the country over the edge
Obama is right on the (foreign) money. Welcome, Tell us what you think " ... skimmed the era's killer elite, from Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes and William ...
By Dwight Garner
Saturday, January 27, 1996
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Martin Amis calls out Christopher Hitchens and other friends on the left for not giving full weight to the 20 million victims of Stalin's terror. ...
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Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.
This praise of Leonard's "literary genius" is from Martin Amis, in his recent anthology, "The War Against Cliche": "He understands the postmodern ...
Friday, October 11, 2002
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The author's recent New York Times Op-Ed shows that she doesn't understand why so many of us love Harry Potter. Maybe it's just too much fun.
Remember, this is the same writer who went into a highly publicized hissy fit some years back when Martin Amis was given a lucrative advance against future books. ...
By Charles Taylor
Tuesday, July 8, 2003
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The author of "The Last Life" picks five favorite books to make you laugh and cringe.
London Fields by Martin Amis. Nicola Six, otherwise known as the Murderee, and the scrofulous Keith Talent inhabit a seamy and savage version of ...
By Claire Messud
Monday, December 6, 1999
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Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.
The poetic prose may be, as Martin Amis recently quipped, "drunkenness recollected in sobriety" (instead of Wordsworth's "emotion recollected in ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2002
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Scott Baldinger reviews Barry Graham's novel "The Book Of Man"
Dissolution is the ostensible motif in the works of Malcolm Lowry, Martin Amis, and Will Self, among others -- but the real joke is that their ...
By Scott Baldinger
Saturday, December 16, 1995
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"Heavy Water and Other Stories" by Martin Amis. The British writer's collection of savagely satirical short stories never delves too deep -- and ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
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Britain's press mourns the dazzling talents of Gianni Versace the man who gave them celebrity Page Three girls.
Martin Amis summed it up in a published conversation with Self, when he stated, "Personalities are much more accessible than a corpus of work. ...
By Andrew Brown
Wednesday, July 16, 1997
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By Tom Bissell
Jenny Craig ends ad campaign after lawsuit. The autism-vaccine lie ... "Under the Volcano," nor of Martin Amis, Burroughs, Carver, Cheever, Ford, Denis ...
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Friday, May 31, 2002
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An unsettling futuristic novel about the enslavement of mankind and more of our favorite new books.
Koba the Dread by Martin Amis. Amis calls out Christopher Hitchens and other friends on the left for not giving full weight to the 20 million victims ...
Monday, August 5, 2002
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We don't need exposis -- as Mary McCarthy showed long ago, the sickness is in his writing.
As novelist Martin Amis said in his recent memoir, "Nothing, for now, can compete with experience -- so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally ...
By Geraldine McGowan
Monday, October 2, 2000
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A maddening and ambitious debut novel that owes as much to "Boogie Nights" as it does to "Ulysses."
Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq? Welcome, Tell us what you ... et al., in journalism from the likes of David Foster Wallace and Martin Amis. ...
By Charles Taylor
Thursday, June 12, 2003
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Longer listens: Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," 50 years and 50 million copies ... Alfred Appel Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, Brian Boyd, Martin Amis and Nabokov's son Dmitri. ...
Monday, October 31, 2005
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While plagiarism accusations fly, the crime gets harder to define
"Voodoo Histories": When smart people believe dumb things. O'Reilly, Stewart square off ... Oats" (1979) from Martin Amis's "The Rachel Papers" (1974), he was all but permanently ...
By Dwight Garner
Monday, July 22, 1996
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Andre Dubus, Peter Fonda, Geraldo Rivera, Andy Warhol and others remember the "absurd" and amazing mind of Kurt Vonnegut.
Martin Amis, journalist and novelist. " Critics and clarity" Lunch in a teeming trattoria ... and Other Visits to America," by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, 1986) ...
By Dana Cook
Thursday, April 12, 2007
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In light of recent scandals, we will now require arrest records and stool samples from all autobiographers. And can someone fact-check the Gospels?
Follow-up on the Citizens United case. Welcome, Tell us what you think " ... needle tracks, urine and stool samples -- and in the case of Martin Amis, dental bills. ...
By Louis Bayard
Friday, March 7, 2008
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Things change: Universal now will film ultra-grisly "Hannibal."
( Though Martin Amis does eviscerate the novel in the new Talk.) As for De Laurentiis, who produced "Manhunter" (the 1986 film adaptation of Harris' ...
By Nikki Finke
Thursday, August 5, 1999
