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Martin Amis: How the sexual revolution helped destroy my sister Sally

20.11.09
Martin Amis tells how the sexual revolution of the Sixties and Seventies played a part in destroying his sister by putting terrifying pressure on women... more

The right choices for a humbled EU

20.11.09
As with so many decisions in a body composed of 25 member states, the choice of Herman van Rompuy as EU President and Catherine Ashton as EU foreign minister is a messy and inoffensive compromise... more

From the pearls of Zadie to the D cups of Jordan

20.11.09
As 2010 draws nearer, the literary world is starting to ask: what were the defining novels of the Noughties?... more

Designer dresses for a bargain in jumble sales of the stars

13.11.09
It might conjure up visions of rummaging through piles of musty clothes in village halls - but now the jumble sale has gone glamorous... more

Our writers are allowed to pick a pocket or two

13.11.09
You can lay many faults at the door of Sir Andrew Motion but plagiarism is not among them... more

Literary snobs should leave Katie Price alone

30.10.09
First Lynda La Plante attacks novels written by celebrities. "Publishers, stop spending your millions on this tripe," she said at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards earlier this month, singling out Katie Price for special opprobrium... more

Iraq backdrop to Alastair Campbell's choice

14.10.09
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Sporting Miscellanies

09.10.09
Political historians of tomorrow will have cause for gratitude to Channel 4’s When Boris Met Dave for revealing the key formative influence on the Tory leader... more

Eight things to write about a dead Kennedy

02.09.09
Chris Addison lays down the rules for reporting the death of a major American figure... more

No better spot for a barbie than The Crabtree

13.08.09
Its spectacular location on the riverbank makes The Crabtree gastropub a fantastic venue for outdoor dining — weather permitting.... more

Where is the novelist to do our city justice?

31.07.09
Dickens’s novels seemed to encapsulate the entire city and London became the central character of his work... more

Get the perfect set: Have a teeth makeover

15.07.09
Bad teeth are to blame for the grim-faced look we wear on the Tube, says a leading orthodontist. Sophie Goodchild meets a man on a mission to rebuild our confidence... more

Martin Amis's lovers laid bare

02.06.09
Ex-girlfriend reveals all in literary kiss-and-tell ... with his blessing... more

Our migrants’ great gift to this city - literature

02.06.09
Arguments over the consequences of immigration are furious and frequent. But it has another, less-noticed, result: it fertilises literature ... more

How old is ‘too old’?

28.04.09
Former WAG Elen Rives thinks she's past it at 34. Nonsense – the best is yet to come, says one fiftysomething writer... more

Praise poets and pass the exploding sugar

03.04.09
"Look," the novelist standing next to the buffet said, pointing down the room at the new winner of the 2008 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. "He's on his third helping." He sniggered. "That's poets for you."... more

Deeper meaning surfaces from Caio Fonseca

27.03.09
Few abstract artists do the weather-beaten surface as well as the 50-year-old Uruguayan-American painter Caio Fonseca.... more

Time bandits have hijacked my fridge

30.01.09
There should be a word — do the Germans have one? I bet the Germans have one — to describe the emotion of just having missed delivery of a fridge... more

A very British walk through the world

29.01.09
It was 250 years ago this month that the British Museum opened its doors... more

Tributes to Updike, American literature's national treasure

28.01.09
John Updike is remembered as one of the "greatest generation" of American novelists... more

He gave the mundane 'its beautiful due'

28.01.09
It is possible for an author simply to write too much. Fluent wasn't the word for John Updike... more

The number two priority for Boris

26.01.09
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If you want money just buy me drink

17.12.08
Happy birthday to the Colony Room Club which celebrated its 60th anniversary this Monday. I was a proud member of the seedy Soho dive for nigh on 15 years and am saddened by reports of its imminent demise. ... more

Some inside jobs in Writers' Rooms

04.12.08
Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored. ... more

The extraordinary life of London's leading agent

22.10.08
As the literary world mourns the sudden death of Pat Kavanagh, a portrait is emerging of a steely operator and a woman who inspired awe and fear in equal measure... more

Tributes pour in for legendary literary agent Pat Kavanagh

21.10.08
Tributes poured in for Pat Kavanagh, the legendary literary agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, who has died from a brain tumour... more

The truth behind the cant of a BBC fat cat

17.10.08
The BBC is an anomaly. It is funded by a completely arbitrary tax the licence fee. Only 41 per cent of the population still think this is an appropriate funding mechanism. Yet, for now, the licence fee is rigorously imposed nonetheless, as I found when I decided it was pointless to pay it since I didn't switch the TV on from one month to the next, except to watch DVDs.... more

Literary Life

08.10.08
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Yet another award - but I still can't read Rushdie

11.07.08
Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book," exclaimed Swift, on rereading his early masterpiece, The Tale of a Tub... more

Granta One Hundred

22.02.08
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