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In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the author recalls his 1970s conquest of London's ink-stained thickets, some disastrous "research" with Martin Amis at a New York bordello, and encounters with everyone from Ian McEwan to Thomas Pynchon to Margaret Thatcher

Martin Amis died in Florida on Friday, of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73. Some of The Spectator’s best writers praised, reviled, laughed at and scorned Amis throughout his career. Here’s some extracts from our archive: The Rachel Papers ‘The narrative is often very funny indeed, but I suspect that Martin Amis is getting

Diamonds to Sports Illustrated, which has chosen businesswoman and media personality Martha Stewart as one of its 2023 swimsuit cover models.

A woolly history of stage acting; a sensuous tale of deadly obsession in a French town; and a seminal exploration of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate

What are the best novels set in London of all time? Londonist readers have picked the best novels from Dickens to Ackroyd to Rutherford to Aaronovitch

Literary Footprints is back this March.

Jeremy Gordin offers some perspective into the socio-political parallels between the riotous London of 1780 and today's South Africa.

On the 300th anniversary of his death, the architect’s fame remains unassailable – but the character of the man is more contested than ever, writes Matthew Walker

From Laurence Olivier to Daniel Day-Lewis, Peter Ackroyd’s new book The English Actor celebrates 1000 years of strutting thesps

Why the perpetual outsider offends all the right people.