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Author: Martin Amis
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Aug 2001
A Critique of a Critic. T. F. Rigelhof Takes on Amis in the War Against ClichT
by T. F. Rigelhof
Spending three or so weeks in Britain each year is more time than I ever need to become irritated, exasperated, and finally bored by English newspapers in all their sectionsùexcept for æSports' where the actual standard of play still gets reported. (If a match was rubbish, they do say so.) Otherwise, the broadsheets are much of a muchness and give columns of opinion precedence over reportage in a way that's becoming overly-familiar to Canadian readers, thanks to the National Post Read more...
| Nov 2002
A Century of Sunsets
by T. F. Rigelhof
Two men meet on a Moscow street corner in 1951. Ivan asks, "Comrade, how are you?" Igor answers, "Better than tomorrow."
If you don't get the joke, you have good reason to read Martin Amis's Koba the Dread. If you have no idea that telling such a joke killed (literallyùthe secret police were bleakly humourless) in Russia in 1951, you have even better reasons for reading this book. Read more...
| Nov 2003
 | Yellow Dog
by Martin Amis
Knopf Canada $35.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0676976166
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A Review of: Yellow Dog
by Matt Sturrock
Those early reports from overseas did not bode well. Yellow Dog, the
first novel we've seen from Martin Amis in eight years, was having the
hide flayed from its bones by the British press. Friends, foes, former
fans, and erstwhile well-wishers were all lining up to lend a hand
with the excoriation. One reckless bravo, a novelist looking to secure
a provocateur reputation of his own, wrote in The Telegraph that the
book "isn't bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing," but
instead is "not-knowing-where-to-look-bad"-a literary embarrassment
for the reader, not unlike learning that your favourite uncle had been
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