Tag: Literature

Total Results: 199


Short-arsed priapic (Credit: The Rachel Papers)
August 18, 2023

Why men need bad-boy literature Martin Amis was the laureate of toxic masculinity

Nicholas Harris

Monday
14.08

14.08

Why you should read like a child Martin Amis was wrong about kids' books

Nikhil Krishnan

Wednesday
09.08

09.08

The cursed outposts of America’s empire Denis Johnson exposed the conceit of adventurism

Lily Lynch

Wednesday
02.08

02.08

Did David Foster Wallace predict the future? Our world is more dystopian than Infinite Jest

Sarah Ditum

Thursday
13.07

13.07

Milan Kundera’s last joke His genius has become a victim of history

David Samuels

Friday
16.06

16.06

Eat, Pray, Get Cancelled Elizabeth Gilbert's capitulation is a gift to the mob

Kathleen Stock

Saturday
10.06

10.06

Mary Gaitskill: How a chatbot charmed me We analysed dreams, love and human pets

Mary Gaitskill

Friday
09.06

09.06

Cormac McCarthy’s irrational apocalypse In his world, mankind is nothing without bloodshed

Park MacDougald

Monday
05.06

05.06

Is anyone at home in Northern Ireland? An ambiguous identity is productive for writers

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday
23.05

23.05

The liberal complacency of Martin Amis His exquisite style hid a squalid sense of morality

Terry Eagleton

Monday
22.05

22.05

Martin Amis knew the horror of words Debased language is the tool of the dictator

David Patrikarakos

Tuesday
16.05

16.05

Ingmar Bergman’s moral horror show He flayed his ego for the sake of art

Rob Doyle