The dustjacket describes this joint critical biography of Kingsley and Martin Amis as “witty, opinionated and thoroughly readable”. The word “opinionated” should ring alarm bells.
The book opens with Neil Powell visiting Kingsley’s childhood home in Norbury and finding that “the air carries a strong and unmistakable whiff of curry”. Is this actually true? Or is [...]
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Jun
no comment
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Feb
Editor’s Choice
Strangers in Death, by J.D. Robb, $25.95. In best seller Robb’s slick, 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s “Creation in Death”), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed. Publishers Weekly
Fiction [...]
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Feb
Editor’s Choice
Strangers in Death, by J.D. Robb, $25.95. In best seller Robb’s slick, 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s “Creation in Death”), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed. Publishers Weekly
Fiction [...]
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Jan
Editor’s Choice
Winter in Madrid, by C.J. Sansom, $25.95. The playing fields of Rookwood did little to prepare reluctant spy Harry Brett for the moral no man’s land of post-Civil War Spain that awaits him in this cinematic historical thriller from British author Sansom (”Sovereign”). Publishers Weekly
FICTION
The Age of Shiva, by [...]
19
Dec
This conversation about Exit Ghost began in April 2007. I was in New York for the publication of my biography of Edith Wharton, and Philip was in town to receive Italy’s Grinzane award at the Italian Academy at Columbia. We met to catch up (we’ve known each other since the early Eighties, when I wrote [...]
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Dec
Controversy has followed “Belle de Jour” - supposedly the pseudonym of a high-class sex worker - from the launch of her prize-winning blog in 2003, to the publication of a couple of books, and now to a television drama. First of all, was Belle, who claimed to be a twentysomething university-educated prostitute, for real? There [...]
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Dec
Most dancers, I think it’s fair to say, aren’t big readers, but Rudolf Nureyev was an exception. An insomniac, who spent much of his life on planes and trains, he was nearly as voracious in his reading as he was in his two major passions: dance and sex. At school in Russia, academic standards were [...]
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Dec
Theft, by Peter Carey (Faber, %26pound;7.99)Brothers Michael (aka Butcher Bones) and Hugh Boone have been welded together since their violent childhood. Butcher has always assumed responsibility for Hugh, a giant child whose deceptively rambling alternate narrative predictably reveals a deeper wisdom than that of his brother. Once an acclaimed painter, now fresh out of jail [...]
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