The Searing Clarity of Hilary Mantel
Mantel the essayist was eager for ideas, light on her feet, yet sharp as a raptor.
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Scenes from a Literary Marriage
'Wifedom' is less a biography of Eileen—or even a portrait of two halves of a marriage—than an indictment of a writer that Funder has ceased to venerate.
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Criticism, Anyone?: An Ode to Martin Amis
The author of some 25 books, many of them brilliant, he seemed incapable of writing a bland string of words.
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