Israel’s New Peace Treaties Reveal How Much the Experts Misunderstood the Middle East
The naysayers are wrong.
October 5, 2020
Englishness, Jewishness, Saul Bellow—and Martin Amis
The novelist in search of a literary father.
With his latest book, Inside Story, the English novelist Martin Amis has attempted a hybrid of fiction and autobiography, using the book to discuss his relationships with various literary friends and, of course, with his father—the novelist Kingsley Amis. While most critics have not been kind to the book, David Herman finds that it has its merits, especially when it addresses the themes of “literary fathers, Englishness, Jews, [and] envy.” Herman finds of special interest the portions of the book devoted to the novelist Saul Bellow, whom Martin appears to regard as a sort of substitute father:
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Englishness, Jewishness, Saul Bellow—and Martin Amis
The novelist in search of a literary father.