Christopher Hitchens
Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more | Martha Gill
Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints
Martha Gill
27, May, 2023 @5:31 PM
‘You read to have a good time. Why else would people go on doing it?’: Martin Amis – a life in quotes
The author of Money and London Fields has died at the age of 73. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews over the course of his career
20, May, 2023 @7:01 PM
The Princess review – Diana’s story remains captivating – and agonising
We know what happens but, even so, Ed Perkins’s skilfully edited documentary on the dazzling outsider royal is utterly and unerringly compelling
Peter Bradshaw
29, Jun, 2022 @12:00 PM
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie review - self-absorption writ large
Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays
Anthony Cummins
23, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
It has been easier to cope with my cancer during lockdown - and books have been a lifeline
While being treated for a brain tumour, Susie Steiner has read memoirs and medical histories - but it was a novel that best captured the gruelling reality of illness
Susie Steiner
13, Jun, 2020 @10:00 AM
I can never look at an alsatian without thinking of Martin Amis's London Fields | Rosa Lyster
When my dad introduced me to the novel, he didn’t say what it was about, says the writer Rosa Lyster
Rosa Lyster
27, Apr, 2020 @8:00 AM
Martin Amis to publish novel inspired by death of Christopher Hitchens
An autobiographical novel, Inside Story, will chronicle the writer’s romantic affairs, the death of Hitchens – his closest friend – and the 9/11 attacks
Alison Flood
12, Feb, 2020 @12:15 PM
London Review of Books: An Incomplete History review – 40 years of the LRB
Rants, spats and intellectual seriousness from London’s literary elite
John Mullan
01, Nov, 2019 @10:00 AM
The week in radio: Forest 404; The Reunion; Archive on 4 – review
Radio 4’s new sci-fi series was darkly funny but also infuriating. Plus, powerful real-life drama in The Reunion; and remembering Christopher Hitchens
Sean O’Hagan
14, Apr, 2019 @6:00 AM
Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side
The neuroscientist – and longtime exponent of meditation – talks about his new app and why he is definitely not an Islamophobe
Andrew Anthony
16, Feb, 2019 @3:00 PM
The Four Horsemen review - whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?
Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris ... were the apostles of atheism as fearless as they thought?
Steven Poole
31, Jan, 2019 @7:30 AM
Stephen Fry pronounces the death of classical liberalism: ‘We are irrelevant and outdated bystanders’
He wasn’t the only one, as the Festival of Dangerous Ideas contemplated the rapid changes in contemporary politics
Stephanie Convery
05, Nov, 2018 @2:28 AM
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