Topic: Martin Amis

UK literary prize honors art of the hatchet job

0 . A new literary prize aims to reward book reviews with edge.. . The Hatchet Job of the Year Award honors "the angriest, funniest, most ...

The Death of Style

Tweet. Kurt Andersen writes in Vanity Fair this month about something that I've noticed too: visual style hasn't changed much over the past 20...

100 Best Things

Cars, bars, spas, ta-da! Herewith GQ's compendium of the season's cultural and consumer highlights including the Burberry trench, the new Martin...
Don't fill in this field Think Tank Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . Editor's Note: Lea Carpenter writes the English Lessons column for Big Think...

The 9/11 attacks as a literary watershed

Ten years on, the dust from the twin towers hasn't finished settling on the literary world and continues to feed a growing body of fiction exploring the moral and physical loss the attacks left behind.Initially, few writers dared get too ...
Jason Reed/Reuters. A statue of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is pictured at his memorial after midnight in Washington.. . The stream of...

Houellebecq wins France's top book prize

Houellebecq came close to winning in 1998 and 2005 but has divided readers and critics with dark tales that have drawn accusations of obscenity and racial provocation.He won the Goncourt Prize for his best-selling satire "The Map and the Territory", the ...

War and Asylum

Columns first published in the Whitstable Times1.In the controversy surrounding the issue of asylum seekers, we tend to forget some of the very real human stories that lie behind it. Shiraz Pir would rather die than have to return to either ...

Hay Festival Highlights

It's the type of festival that even a badly injured Bono might enjoy. After the success of last year's event, which saw Johnny Davis interview John Irving on stage, GQ will be in attendance.. A huge number of GQ contributors ...
Prime Minister David Cameron swapped political barbs for showbiz quips as he picked up a gong at the GQ Men of the Year awards.. He was joined at last night's event at London's Royal Opera House by a host of ...