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Martin Amis
May 23, 2023
Critical Mass
Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke
Amis trusted you to keep pace with his wit, his bawdiness, his erudition. His work seems to say: You and me—we get it.
October 5, 2021
Critical Mass
Who Will Win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 22, 2020
Critical Mass
Martin Amis, the Accidental Memoirist
His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.
October 6, 2020
Critical Mass
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
March 16, 2018
Martin Amis Makes the Case for Snobbery
The essays in “The Rub of Time” defend careful thought and use of language.
October 31, 2014
There Were No Love Stories in Auschwitz. Is It Okay for a Novelist to Invent One?
December 7, 2012
V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He will Never Write
December 7, 2012
V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write
October 19, 2012
Martin Amis: State of Decline
September 5, 2012
Books as Objects, Sentences as Art, and the Secret Behind an Eight-Million-Dollar Sports Empire: Today’s TNR Reader
June 21, 2012
Woody Allen's Obsessions and Martin Amis's Lessons: Today's TNR Reader
April 29, 2011
Tel Aviv Journal: Notes on a Roiling Region
September 10, 2010
Why Don't Novelists Care about Katrina?
July 7, 2010
Look At Me!
July 7, 2010
Look At Me!
December 4, 2009
Weekend Reading, December 4-6
March 14, 2005
The Moral Baby

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