Five uneasy pieces amid a twilight world Nov 15, 2009
It is Kingsley Amis s Lord Jim, hapless and hilarious, blundering among the Marx brothers. Yet when Emily returns, no explosion. (Boston Globe)
The Black Arts of Literary Biography Oct 30, 2009
And the problem is that this serialization simply will not materialize if the writer lived what someone was it Kingsley Amis. once said would be the ideal life of any writer: He sat at his desk and wrote. (The American Conservative)
British MP sends son to find his African roots in Ghana Jun 28, 2009
James prospered at the school, whose alumni include Herbert Asquith, Kingsley Amis and Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter actor, and achieved 11 A*-grade GCSEs. Abbott travelled to Ghana to visit the Hermann Gmeiner International College at Tema named after an Austrian philanthropist who set up SOS Childrens Villages for abandoned and orphaned children after the second world war. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Bar Room Essentials Jun 26, 2009
According to Kingsley Amis' Everyday Drinking, this should be made of glass, be tall and narrow, with a lip beak to hold in the ice when pouring, and must not be less than a quart in size. Shaker. (Suite101.com)
Casualties of Waugh May 25, 2009
In 1982, Kingsley Amis having several times winced under the birchings of Waugh as reviewer retributively subjected Waugh s most lush and baroque novel, Brideshead Revisited, to a triumph of silly-clever debating-society rhetoric predictable from its name alone: How I Lived In A Very Big House And Found God. (Previously Malcolm Muggeridge had dismissed the same book which he never finished reading as tedious and rather foolish. (The American Conservative)
From Venice to Varanasi Apr 13, 2009
neur out of Rilke (but with a vinegary English dash of Kingsley Amis), eager to experience as much as possible, to travel and fall in love and meet new people, and wary of writing and reading, because, although they preserve such experience, they do so at a mimetic remove. The problem for the Romantic is that, in order to have anything to write about, he has to live i.e., not be writing. (New Yorker)
The Elusive Englishman Mar 7, 2009
More tersely, Kingsley Amis dispatches young Irving Macher as a Hebrew jackanapes in One Fat Englishman. If the Jew as outsider has a long pedigree, there also exists a compensatory tradition. (The American Conservative)
