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The zones of interest

Martin Amis, who died last year, was always very concerned about his future place in the literary canon. He said that, since the “truth” about writers is only revealed 50 years after their death, they “feel the honour of being judged by something that is...

The Zone Of Interest: The Dark Psychological Insight Of Martin Amis's Holocaust Novel Is Lost In The Film Adaptation

The Zone of Interest: the dark psychological insight of Martin Amis's Holocaust novel is lost in the film adaptation

In The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis represents our familiar world from a radically unfamiliar angle.

BMW driver spared jail after being caught by police in Sunderland

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals

“Frans Hals is a colourist among colourists,” enthused van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo in 1885, “a colourist like Veronese, like Rubens, like Delacroix, like Velázquez.” With testimonials like this, it’s no wonder anticipation for the National Gallery’s recently opened Frans Hals survey was high.

Tom Crewe · Praeludium of a Grunt: Charles Lamb's Lives · LRB 19 October 2023

Strange Horizons - Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod By Adam Roberts

Pockets: A Story for Alan Garner

In the darkest hour, that which is meant to be obsolete may yet make all the difference. 

The Mature Society, pt 3: what would a better America look like?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why does King Charles take such an interest in the land of the vampires?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Initially, after learning of president Ceausescu's concreting over ancient farmlands he lobbied the Government to annul his Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.