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Martin Amis

By Emily Witt 11/11/11 8:56am

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Morning Book Links: A Border’s Autopsy and an OWS Reading of ‘Bartleby’

How did Border's die? "When Borders declared bankruptcy in February, more than 200 of its 400 outlets were still 'highly profitable,' says its final chief executive officer, Mike Edwards." [BusinessWeek]

Martin Amis's biography might be badly written, but this review is excellent. [FT]

More thoughts on Q.R. Markham. Is it pastiche? A collage? Or plagiarism? [New Yorker]

Morris Philipson, who directed the University of Chicago Press for 30 years, has died. [Chicago Tribune] Read More

5 By Christian Lorentzen 4/26/11 10:50pm

Novelists

Almost Amis

On Monday night, I was on 10th Avenue talking to the biological granddaughter of Brooklyn literary lioness Paula Fox. I asked her if she read Martin Amis. "I like Money," said Courtney Love, sitting on a bench and smoking a cigarette outside a film premiere after-party. "I like John Self in Money," she said. "I Read More

By Christian Lorentzen 5/27/10 10:43pm

The Martin Amis Challenge: Hey Genius, Try Writing a Thriller!

Can a highbrow author go low? Today at Book Expo America, during a panel of thriller authors, Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, issued something of a challenge. Genre writers, he asserted, are as a rule extremely well read and capable of writing in a diversity of styles. "If you asked a genre Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 5/02/08 7:23pm

The Ties That Bind

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By Isabel Fonseca

Alfred A. Knopf, 306 pages, $23.95

Oh, to be Isabel Fonseca! A stunning brunette with high cheekbones and that glam international surname that suggests a yummy pairing of fontina and prosecco. Second wife of Martin Amis, easily among the top five writers working in the English language (never mind those scathing Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 4/29/08 7:42pm

Wieseltier-amis: Post-game

An incendiary essay by New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about Martin Amis’ recent essay collection on 9/11 and the evils of Islamism ran on the cover of the New York Times Book Review last weekend. The review was an evisceration, built on Mr. Wieseltier’s contention that Mr. Amis aestheticizes politics and tragedy for his Read More

By Tom Bissell 4/01/08 6:44pm

Amis in the 21st Century

THE SECOND PLANE: SEPTEMBER 11: TERROR AND BOREDOMBy Martin Amis Alfred A. Knopf, 211 pages, $24

Martin Amis’ The Second Plane is a collection of essays, short fiction and book reviews arranged in order of composition. It thus functions, in some ways, as a walking tour of the motley post-Sept. 11 mind—its fears, madnesses, misapprehensions Read More

By Adam Begley 1/28/08 5:42pm

Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Amis on Islam; Harvard’s Hot President; James Wood on Character

Is it still schadenfreude when it’s the indestructible Martin Amis getting kicked around? His new book, a collection of essays and stories about militant Islam, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007, won’t be published over here until April Fools’ Day, but it’s already out in the U.K. (Jonathan Cape, £12.90) and was greeted last weekend Read More