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Novels

More of the Best Novels Since ‘Ulysses’

August 29, 2022September 7, 2022 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Affliction, An American Tragedy, Arthur Koestler, Brian Moore, Doris Lessing, Godfrey Blunden, Nathanael West, Native Son, Philip Larkin, Richard Wright, Robertson Davies, Russell Banks, The Day of the Locust, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, The Grass Is Singing, Theodore Dreiser

The Times of London’s list was far from complete. We offer some additional, and maybe even better, choices.

Amis

CREATORS FICTION Writers

‘Inside Story’, or is Martin Amis Just Hedging?

December 21, 2020December 24, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Christopher Hitchens, Evelyn Waugh, Inside Story, John Updike, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

Hiding your opinions of famous writers as “fiction” is a cop-out

Amis

Inside Martin Amis

November 16, 2020November 19, 2020 Matt Hanson 1 Comment Christopher Hitchens, Inside Story, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow, The New Statesman

In his latest “novel”, the writer dishes on Christopher Hitchens, Philip Larkin, and Saul Bellow, among others