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GILES COREN | NOTEBOOK

The tragedy of Amis was to be envied by his dad

The death of Martin Amis has affected me more deeply than I thought it would, given that I never met him or read...

Monday May 22 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

SUSIE GOLDSBROUGH | NOTEBOOK

I’m 25, and suddenly the future has passed

Last week, I turned 25. Other people’s birthdays, however epochal to them, are – like other people’s dreams –...

Monday May 22 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

Susie Goldsbrough

Martin Amis

When I saw Martin Amis in 2018, he looked frail

The first time I met Martin Amis, his house in Brooklyn had been destroyed by fire and he was lodging at his...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.00pm, The Times

Martin Amis died at his home in Florida

Amis was not given the respect he deserved, say writers

Martin Amis was wrongly spurned by critics in recent years, fellow novelists have said, as friends and politicians...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

LEADING ARTICLE

Amis’s Achievement

In his collection of criticism, The War Against Cliché (1999), Martin Amis refers to modern novelists’ “potential...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Times Leading Articles

The author in his Notting Hill flat in 1986

‘When he reviewed a book, it stayed reviewed’: the real genius of Amis

I bought my copy of Martin Amis’s collected essays and reviews, The War Against Cliché, in a bookshop on the...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Martin Amis in 1987

Was I wrong to hero-worship Martin Amis?

For 25 years up to the end of the last century, an interview with Martin Amis was a summit that most feature...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Martin Amis at his Kensington home in 1981

Martin Amis, author who was lauded as the cleverest of his generation but often derided by critics

The trouble with being a self-consciously fin de siècle, apocalyptic writer is what you do after the new century...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.00am, The Times

The film opens with a vision of rural bliss

The Zone of Interest — Holocaust film masterfully reinvents Martin Amis novel

★★★★★
One of the final gifts that

bestowed upon us was the source novel for this masterful movie...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.30pm, The Times

Martin Amis inspired vitriolic takedowns and snarky reviews almost as much as he inspired admiration and imitation

JOHANNA THOMAS-CORR

The five books you should read by the peerless Martin Amis

How do you measure a writer’s influence? It is impossible to be objective about these things but surely the key...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Johanna Thomas-Corr

, Literary Editor

Whatever your politics, just blame the woman

Is the present day better or worse than the past? This has become one of the defining questions of the political...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Josef Fritzl abducted his daughter Elisabeth in the 1980s, imprisoned her beneath their home and raped her repeatedly

Would you write a book with Josef Fritzl? One woman did and this is why

Last summer Astrid Wagner, an Austrian author and criminal defence lawyer, received a memoir in the post, densely...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

How we won the phonics war and got England reading

The modern debate about how to teach children to read was triggered in 1955 by the publication in America of Why...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Lisa Jewell once paid £1,000 for a photo of Kate Moss

FAME AND FORTUNE

Lisa Jewell: ‘I sold 2 million books thanks to one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’

Lisa Jewell has written 19 novels, including the bestselling thrillers Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Jodie Comer will star in the HBO adaptation of Big Swiss

Why TV, podcasts and novels can’t get enough sex therapists

Jen Beagin had a lot of fun researching her latest novel — because it mainly involved asking friends and strangers...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Francesca Angelini

Misty eyed: Marlene Dietrich

BOOKS | HISTORY

Make love and ignore the Nazis

This unusual book is a record of the love lives of 46 European artists, writers and public figures in the ten years...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Sebastian Faulks

Power play: the Googleplex in Silicon Valley

BOOKS | CALIFORNIA

‘Bill Gates is a jerk — and Steve Jobs had terrible BO’

The city of Palo Alto, in northern California, has a good claim to be one of the most interesting places on Earth...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Dominic Sandbrook

Protected woman: The Fourth Concubine of Hexing of Hong Kong, 1864

BOOKS | HISTORY

How Hong Kong’s concubines got ahead

Hong Kong “was never just another Chinese city”, Vaudine England writes in her wonderful story of the many peoples...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Michael Sheridan

Henry Moore with his work

The genius who snapped up six Van Goghs for £5,000

In the 1930s Helen Ede noticed how her husband always “undressed a room in his mind”. By this she meant that Jim...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Restless explorer: M John Harrison’s work is laden with enigmas

The best writer you’ve never heard of

M John Harrison, the best British writer you’ve never heard of, operates on the margins. Beginning in the 1960s as...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times