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Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

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Late British novelist Martin Amis knighted by King Charles in his first birthday honors list

Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been posthumously knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled late Friday

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King’s Birthday Honours: Literary giant Martin Amis knighted before his death

The author of 13 novels was knighted for his service to literature

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Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Anna Wintour honoured in king’s birthday list

Knighthood for late novelist Amis is dated 18 May as honours cannot be given posthumously

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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

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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5 best books by Martin Amis

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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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Evening Standard

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’

Evening Standard

‘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

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