Writings
#5onFri: Five Non-Fiction Rules Fiction Authors Often Break
JANUARY 17, 2020 I spent most of my working lifetime [...]
Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”
OCTOBER 29, 2019 AFTER THE BIBLE, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is [...]
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime
Time’s Arrow (1991) confronts a question that has consumed Amis [...]
Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Amis has made a comeback! “Martin Amis’s [...]
Life and Other Genres: Martin Amis’s The Pregnant Widow
(unpublished elsewhere) In 2010 Martin Amis, possibly the most influential [...]
Furious Simulation, or Simulated Fury: Salman Rushdie’s Fury (2001)
Fury, Rushdie’s eighth novel, reads like a book that was [...]