JANUARY 17, 2020 I spent most of my working lifetime teaching students at London University, and, after immigrating to Southern California, at USC, UCLA [...]

OCTOBER 29, 2019 AFTER THE BIBLE, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is said to be the best-selling book of all time, with estimated sales of [...]

Time’s Arrow (1991) confronts a question that has consumed Amis from an early stage in his career: is modernity leading civilization to self-destruction? [...]

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Amis has made a comeback! “Martin Amis’s funniest and most satisfying novel in years” (David Free); “[. . .] instead [...]

(unpublished elsewhere) In 2010 Martin Amis, possibly the most influential - and contentious - of contemporary British novelists, published The Pregnant Widow, his [...]

Fury, Rushdie’s eighth novel, reads like a book that was written fast, which turns out to be the case. Rushdie has said that [...]

The five novels that Ishiguro has written to date show a remarkably consistent preoccupation with the same themes, "themes with an emotional dimension," [...]

Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988) is one of the relatively few works of fiction to have made a significant and permanent impact [...]

Ghostwritten Random House, 1999, 426 pp. Number9Dream Random House, 2001, 400 pp. Cloud Atlas Random House, 2004, 509 pp. Black Swan Green Random [...]

For a long time Ian McEwan found himself trapped in the role of a sensational writer caricatured by the British press as Ian Macabre [...]