The Cancellation of Salman Rushdie
A California college invited the ‘Satanic Verses’ author to speak at commencement. Then the trouble started.
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Christopher Hitchens
The Fulfilling Life of Steve Wasserman
Editor and book critic’s collection of essays is a remarkable model of staying mentally young and intellectually curious
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Considering Martin Amis
Revisiting the literary legacy of a gadfly and provocateur
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Bonfire of the Vanity Fair
Dana Brown’s memoir about Vanity Fair’s heyday brings back the glamour–and the fall
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The Boys Who Cried Orwell
Everything is Orwellian, apparently
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‘Inside Story’, or is Martin Amis Just Hedging?
Hiding your opinions of famous writers as “fiction” is a cop-out
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Inside Martin Amis
In his latest “novel”, the writer dishes on Christopher Hitchens, Philip Larkin, and Saul Bellow, among others
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Remembering Alexander Cockburn
Controversial lefty journalist battled the right wing and mainstream liberals
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How Close Are We To Dystopia? Despite What Michael Moore Says, Not Very.
A Novel By an Avant-Garde Genius Of The 1930s Offers Clarity
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