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First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

In defence of polemic

Ever since Martin Amis declared that “the Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order”, two opposing literary brigades have been having it in public. They have produced a substantial collection of polemic; it should be included ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Spectator]
First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

A cosmic comedy

Not long ago I had an email from a friend, wondering if I’d yet read the new Ian McEwan. ‘Talk about a bolt from the blue,’ she said. ‘McEwan does slapstick. I never saw that coming.’ She added (unfairly, I thought) that you might class On Chesil Beach ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by Spectator]
First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 03 2010 - 1 Documents

Dubai Police Chief Says He Knows an Israeli When He Sees One

Dubai’s police chief, Gen. Dahi Khalfan al-Tamim, said on Monday that the famously open city may soon block people who look or sound like Israelis from entering, no matter what passport they produce.Until now, the police chief told a local newspaper, ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by New York Times]
First Reported Feb 21 2010 - Updated Feb 21 2010 - 1 Documents

What good is a lecturer who cant be understood?

My daughter is studying law at Bangor University. She is enjoying it immensely and predicts she will get good grades in all subjects except contract law. When I asked her what the problem was in that subject she said the lecturer came from an Asian country ... [Published Feb 21 2010 by Times Online]
First Reported Feb 21 2010 - Updated Feb 21 2010 - 1 Documents

David Simon: 'Treme is a story about how American urban culture defines how we live' | Interview

The creator of The Wire discusses Martin Amis, Baltimore accents and Treme, his upcoming TV showTell me about Treme, the show set in New Orleans you're currently producing.It's a very different piece from The Wire . We're not trying to do a crime story ... [Published Feb 21 2010 by Guardian.co.uk]
First Reported Jan 20 2010 - Updated Jan 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Not Yet -- By: Jay Nordlinger

My colleague David Pryce-Jones tells a story I love -- I forget the year, unfortunately. And I can’t call David at the moment, because it’s 5 in the morning in London. But, one year, the Conservatives pulled off an upset over Labour. There was a party ... [Published Jan 20 2010 by The Corner on National Review Online]
First Reported Jan 17 2010 - Updated Jan 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Off The Boil, in with Belly | Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The dismal efforts of the England cricket team are typical. We just don't do decent nicknames now 'Belly and Colly got us into a fantastic position. Then all of a sudden a few wickets fell and I was next in." The subject of this recent passage from ... [Published Jan 17 2010 by Comment is free | guardian.co.uk]
First Reported Jan 12 2010 - Updated Jan 12 2010 - 1 Documents

Male Contraceptive Pill Mooted Again, Still a Dreadful Idea [Shut Up Science]

About once every six months there is a breakthrough on the male contraceptive pill . Everyone gets excited for about five minutes, then realizes it's an appalling notion. Here's a reminder why. History is littered with incidents that prove Kingsley ... [Published Jan 12 2010 by Gawker]
First Reported Dec 16 2009 - Updated Dec 16 2009 - 1 Documents

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Lunchtime O’Booze is the archetypical drink-sodden columnist propping up the bar in the pages of UK satirical magazine Private Eye . Famously crusty British novelist Kingsley Amis (self-declared “curmudgeonly old shit”) could have been the prototype. ... [Published Dec 16 2009 by Times LIVE Blogs - Posts]
First Reported Oct 28 2009 - Updated Oct 28 2009 - 1 Documents

Great Historical Questions to Which the Answer is No

 John Rentoul continually finds more examples of this species of journalistic inquiry than I do, largely owing to his formidable knowledge of the Daily Mail. But today The Times makes its own contribution, with a feature entitled "Tinker, tailor, soldier, ... [Published Oct 28 2009 by Oliver Kamm]
First Reported Oct 25 2009 - Updated Oct 25 2009 - 1 Documents

UK award aims to halt slide in standards of writing

Ken Follett will help name stylish literary greats and shame pretentious windbags Britain prides itself on its great written tradition. From a global literary giant such as Shakespeare to the stylists of the modern age, like Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis ... [Published Oct 25 2009 by Observer]
First Reported Oct 20 2009 - Updated Oct 20 2009 - 1 Documents

The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes

This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of heightened equality, or a sign that "literary fiction itself is succumbing to entropy," as Erica ... [Published Oct 20 2009 by The Huffington Post | Full News Feed]

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In defence of polemic [Spectator - Mar 15 2010]
A cosmic comedy [Spectator - Mar 11 2010]
Dubai Police Chief Says He Knows an Israeli Whe... [New York Times - Mar 02 2010]
Deborah Hill Cone: Sweat and manure, the smell... [New Zealand Herald - Feb 27 2010]
A Comedian in the Academy [Slate Magazine - Feb 24 2010]
'Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet... [NPR - Feb 23 2010]
What good is a lecturer who cant be understood? [Times Online - Feb 21 2010]
David Simon: 'Treme is a story about how Americ... [Guardian.co.uk - Feb 21 2010]
Why the literary world has still got it in for ... [Keep Media - Feb 17 2010]
Monster of Marriage [Atlantic Monthly - Feb 10 2010]
Sri Lanka’s literary festival: a diary [Prospect - Jan 30 2010]
Martin Amis suggesting euthanasia booths? It's ... [Observer - Jan 26 2010]
The EU as conspiracy [Spiked Online - Nov 28 2009]
UK award aims to halt slide in standards of wri... [Observer - Oct 25 2009]
The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Oct 20 2009]
Hell-Raising Black British MP Hides Son in Top ... [AllAfrica.com - Jul 09 2009]
Regretting those words until your dying day [Telegraph - Jul 03 2009]
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My Top Books, by David Henderson [EconLog - Mar 18 2010]
Tyler Cowen led the way by listing the ten books that influenced his worldview most strongly. Then co-bloggers Arnold and Bryan followed. Here are my seventeen, ...
Pictures from an institution [Power Line - Jan 30 2010]
I've spent the past week in residence at the Hoover Institution as a media fellow along with Richard Starr of the Weekly Standard and Cristina Aby-Azar of the Wall ...
Martin Amis suggesting euthanasia booths? It's ... [Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk - Jan 25 2010]
Martin Amis may be in a funk about growing old and publicity for his book, but the 'silver tsunami's' future is all about work, and perhaps he could be a lollipop ...
Not Yet -- By: Jay Nordlinger [The Corner on National Review Online - Jan 20 2010]
My colleague David Pryce-Jones tells a story I love -- I forget the year, unfortunately. And I can’t call David at the moment, because it’s 5 in the morning in London. ...
Off The Boil, in with Belly | Geoffrey Wheatcroft [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Jan 17 2010]
The dismal efforts of the England cricket team are typical. We just don't do decent nicknames now'Belly and Colly got us into a fantastic position. Then all of a ...
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