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RT @DurrellSociety: Durrell’s Quartet is a masterpiece that defies most laws of fiction and good taste: bewitching, epic and beautifully wr…
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I reread Lawrence Durrell’s Justine and wrote about it for @thetimes . It is a bewitchingly pretentious novel, which I love in spite of its many flaws.
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Excited to make my first appearance in @Lit_Review with a review of "The Boyhood of Cain", Michael Amherst's debut novel.
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I’m in The Times today for the first time, writing about champagne, satanism, and some posh people who like both, in this review of Kate van der Borgh’s “And He Shall Appear”. A load of old Bolly — devilry and revelry at Cambridge
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@ddhitchens @skulthorp @firstthingsmag Is it worth reading Master and his Emissary first? Or just heading straight to The Matter with Things?
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RT @ddhitchens: Wrote for @firstthingsmag about why a strange 1,579-page book available for $87 from an obscure outfit called Perspectiva P…
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RT @j_amesmarriott: I reviewed Jordan Peterson's new book. Never read anything like it. Really quite mad.
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RT @alexmassie: No, this is not the time for talk about ‘root causes’ or ‘legitimate concerns’. (Also, whatever Musk may think, Britain is…
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I wrote an article on football clichés. Usually, discussions of this are themselves cliché. I hope I have avoided this …
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It was an absolute delight to interview @j_amesmarriott, who I think is one of the most interesting young writers around. Click the link below to hear his memories of growing up, and his thoughts on AI, the Culture Wars, and more.
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He was the greatest prose stylist born in Great Britain these last hundred years, and the English language is the worse for his death. #RIP
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RT @bfcarlson: Nobody hated clichés as intensely, and as thoughtfully, as Martin Amis. I particularly like his attack on the trendy catchph…
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RT @JANUSZCZAK: I woke up even more depressed about Martin Amis going than when I fell asleep. The times needed him to stay alive. As a rea…
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RT @spectator: Not many novelists, even the very greatest, have a career that lasts 50 years Philip Hensher
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RT @j_amesmarriott: I wrote this about the collapse in humanities degrees over the last ten years. Its extremely depressing. In English an…
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