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A story about a ‘nympheur’ and how time and death have made him sensitive to the plight of women
Martin Amis’s satire about a hellraising ‘Lotto Lout’ fails to shock
This caustic, street-smart novel is a bittersweet hymn to the high jinks of student days
Novelist Angela Carter is remembered through her postcards in this affectionate homage
The deputy editor of the London Evening Standard watches Kim Jong-il’s state funeral from Namibia, a country that North Korea befriended in 1990
From Iraq to religion, Christopher Hitchens defined areas of debate, writes John Lloyd
It is easy to see why a writer such as Martin Amis would be displeased with his biographer
In her collected correspondence to poet Edward Field, editor Diana Athill documents her dotage with affecting candour
September 11 was a television event so it is hardly surprising that the anniversary produced programmes of every kind
Amy Waldman’s debut novel is the most successful yet at making sense of 9/11
John Lloyd sees an antidote to the recent dreary reflections on this generation
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