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Literary giant Martin Amis given knighthood before death at 73

He was given the honour for services to literature.

The Independent UK

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 Independent UK

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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 - UK

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 - AU

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 Guardian - UK

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.

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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

The Guardian - UK

False Eden, real hell

Sometimes Cannes pulls a poker face and smacks a big surprise down on its famous red carpet, all without a blink or a wink. This year, it comes in the form of a three-and-a-half-hour documentary about Chinese sweatshop workers, shot entirely in a crummy garment district on the mainland's eastern…

Bangkok Post

OPINION - Oxford students are playing a risky and dangerous game with free speech

Last week in the park with my daughter I got chatting to a lady. Over the course of a 10 minute conversation we cantered through why she thought Covid was a massive conspiracy and that British people were racist for expressing such sorrow over the plight of Ukrainians while ignoring…

Evening Standard

With 2 essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust

Even before it entered its first weekend, the 76th Cannes Film Festival had claimed its first critical triumph and competition standout with "The Zone of Interest." An implacably chilling, entirely mesmerizing portrait of a family living in the shadow of the inferno, the movie was greeted at its Friday night…

Los Angeles Times

5 best books by Martin Amis

Alex Peake-Tomkinson on the late author’s career-defining works

Evening Standard

Let’s use our spare rooms to help homeless refugees

Brief letters: Hosting asylum seekers | Liz Truss in Taiwan | Jim Ratcliffe’s wealth | Martin Amis

The Guardian - UK

Ian McEwan pays tribute to a side of Martin Amis few people knew

‘There is a great tenderness about Martin that never really reached public press,’ said McEwan of the late writer

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OPINION - Martin Amis was by far the greatest chronicler of London since Dickens

God, I loved Martin Amis. There’s a video on YouTube that I must have watched a dozen times, where he’s lounging in a library with Clive James, puffing cigarettes and talking books.

Evening Standard

Martin Amis’s difficult relationship with literary London

One of the lesser honours afforded to the celebrated writer Martin Amis, who died at the weekend aged 73, was perennial status in this Diary column.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Speeding row catches up with Suella Braverman

While playing the role of statesman at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, shaking hands and signing agreements with fellow world leaders, the Prime Minister has been forced to address the matter of his Home Secretary and a speeding ticket.

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Actor Iona Stewart-Richardson, who has clown training, to play Matt Hancock in live show

The actress told us her clown training will ‘come in handy’

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‘Cool, tender and sweet Martin Amis was in another world’, Ian McEwan says in tribute

Ian McEwan has paid tribute to fellow author Martin Amis, who died from cancer of the oesophagus at his home in Florida at the weekend

The Independent UK

Ian McEwan: Martin Amis seen as ‘Mick Jagger of literature’ but had a tenderness

The author described his late friend as ‘every commissioning editor’s dream’.

The Guardian - UK

William Boyd on his friend Martin Amis: ‘He was ferociously intelligent – and very funny’

He saw the world’s cruel absurdities through a comic lens, writes Boyd, who recalls his very first meeting with Amis – and explains why his unmistakable voice will never be forgotten

The Guardian - UK

‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game

He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers

The Guardian - UK

‘Stylist extraordinaire’: worlds of literature and politics pay tribute to Martin Amis

Fellow writers including Salman Rushdie express their admiration for British novelist who has died aged 73

Evening Standard

The Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer’s film based loosely on Martin Amis’s novel is beautiful and terrible

The banal, systematic horror of Auschwitz is dealt with expertly by the English director

The Conversation

The pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, Martin Amis's pyrotechnic prose captured life's destructive energies

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle.

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