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A Review of Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo: State of England
I haven’t enjoyed a novel by Martin Amis so much since his 1995 work The Information . His newest book, Lionel Asbo: State of England , is as darkly...
A Review of Keith Donohue’s Centuries of June
Keith Donohue’s most recent novel is a chain of interlinking stories in the tradition of The Canterbury Tales , The Decameron , or, closer to our time, Salman Rushdie’s...
A Review of 1Q84
What Haruki Murakami has given us in his latest novel, 1Q84 , is a loose baggy metaphysical monster of a fairy tale. The Japanese writer has said he wants...
Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War
I have always wanted to like the novels of Iris Murdoch more than I have. Right up my alley, I’ve thought, preoccupied as she was (and I am) with...
Truth’s Divided Disciples
As I read David Lebedoff’s latest book, The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War , I began to think of George Orwell as a...
The Complete—and Surprising—Flann O’Brien
Once upon a time, and a very long time ago it was, Flann O’Brien (aka Myles na Gopaleen, aka Brian O’Nolan, his real name, sometimes gaelicized to Brian “...
