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The novelist recalls the first lunch and last meeting with his courteous and funny friend who, as a writer, defined the age he lived in

The Guardian - UK

Fact vs Fiction: The Zone of Interest — is it based on a true story?

Telling a story about a family living right on the edge of Auschwitz, is The Zone of Interest based on a true story. We do some research.

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Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest: ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now’

The director’s audacious new film about Auschwitz’s commandant was 10 years in the making. He explains how it was made – and the importance of finding light in the darkness

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Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Guardian - UK

John Niven: ‘My comfort read? Alan Clark’s diaries’

The Scottish author on laughing out loud at Catch-22, being inspired by Martin Amis and the joy of Graeme Johnston’s Kerby

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

The Guardian - UK

Zadie Smith: ‘I get in trouble when I talk about the state of the nation’

After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep

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OPINION - Farewell Jamie Reid, punk visionary who captured the spirit of generation

Jamie Reid, who has just died at the age of 76, was as important to London as Big Ben or Guy Fawkes. As influential as Martin Amis or John Betjeman. His work was as iconic as any London portrait by Monet, Pissarro or Canaletto. This Croydon-born boy was a colossal…

Evening Standard

The week in TV: Heartstopper; Wolf; The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart; The Hidden World of Hospitality With Tom Kerridge – review

Lovable teen drama Heartstopper returns with wider horizons; overstuffed new BBC thriller Wolf keeps you guessing; and ghosts are no match for Sigourney Weaver

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Simon Schama’s cultural highlights

The historian and broadcaster on his favourite new sitcom, a moving art memoir, and why no one beats Anselm Kiefer

The Guardian - UK

Too often Australians weaponise the word ‘mate’ to mean the opposite of friendship

Seeing a road-rage exchange and reading Wake in Fright got me thinking how readily this word is used as a testosterone-charged pejorative

The Guardian - AU

‘People are like, Wow!’: the man trying to make condoms sexy

The long read: It has been said that condoms share marketing characteristics with napalm and funerals. But it is Ben Wilson’s mission to make us believe they are key to human happiness

The Guardian - UK

The missing superstars of women’s tennis

Where are today’s superstars of women’s tennis? The best we can do is put together Iga Świątek, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina as the female counterparts of the Federer-Djokovic-Nadal trio. Read Suresh Menon’s column by subscribing to The Hindu.

The Hindu

Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

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The Independent UK

Late British novelist Martin Amis knighted by King Charles in his first birthday honors list

Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been posthumously knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled late Friday

Evening Standard

King’s Birthday Honours: Literary giant Martin Amis knighted before his death

The author of 13 novels was knighted for his service to literature

The Guardian - UK

Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Anna Wintour honoured in king’s birthday list

Knighthood for late novelist Amis is dated 18 May as honours cannot be given posthumously

The Independent UK

Literary giant Martin Amis given knighthood before death at 73

He was given the honour for services to literature.

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Revealed: Martin Amis to be awarded knighthood four weeks after dying from cancer

Exclusive: The acclaimed author was approached about the accolade shortly before his death in May

The Independent UK

Martin Amis: A prolific writer who cast a caustic eye on society

His dark and wry dissections of modern culture redefined British literature in the 1980s

The Guardian - UK

Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more

Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: the future of journalism, farewelling Martin Amis and secrets of a hostage negotiator

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - UK

Big names, joyful hugs, auteur fury: verdict and prize predictions for Cannes 2023

Another year, another star-studded cohort of cinephiles – and, right on cue, our own roundup of winners and alternative ‘Braddies’

The Week

Martin Amis: literary wunderkind who ‘blazed like a rocket’

A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Netflix ends password-sharing – but I’m close to bailing anyway

Plus, reflections on Martin Amis’s later years, and Jude Law’s disgusting new cologne

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