 | Mark
Sanderson's review of The War
Against Cliché in the Telegraph (4 July 2001).
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| In the course of evaluating The
War Against Cliché for the Observer, Jason
Cowley claims that as a novelist, Amis's reach exceeds his grasp (8 April
2001).
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Join
a Guardian online disscussion: "In the preface to his new
collection of essays and reviews, The War Against Cliché, Martin Amis argues
that we're all critics now - and that talent and integrity are the losers.
What do you think?" (26 March 2001).
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Discussion Board visitors weigh in on The War Against Cliché.
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| "The Bread
and Butter of Life's Rich Tapestry." Terrence Blacker defends
the much-maligned cliché against its attackers, including Martin Amis, in The
Independent (14 April 2001).
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| "Critical
Velocity." Geoff Dyer acclaims The War
Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (The Guardian, 14
April 2001).
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| "Trainwreck
in a Literary Time Machine." Among other things, Matt Thorne of The
Independent hates the title of Amis's book review collection (15 April
2001).
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| "Nothing
Matters More Than Prose." Philip Hensher
reviews The War
Against Cliché for The Spectator (21 April 2001).
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| "The
Most Uncommon Reader." Lawrence Rainey reviews The War
Against Cliché for The Independent (21 April 2001).
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| "Martin's
Monsters." William Fiennes offers a dissenting view of The War
Against Cliché for the Electronic Telegraph site Books
Online ("Amis ridicules the stylistic tics of other writers only
to indulge his own") (23 April 2001).
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| Robert
Winder of The New Statesman reviews The War
Against Cliché (23 April 2001).
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| "Amis
in Miniature." David Sexton reviews The War
Against Cliché for This is London (23 April 2001).
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| "Can
We Win the War Against Cliché?" Natasha
Walter reviews The War
Against Cliché for The Independent (25 April 2001).
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| "The
Voice of Experience." David Robinson of The Scotsman reviews
The War Against (25 April 2001).
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| "The
Battle of Style Against Substance." John Carey takes out after The War
Against Cliché in a "Poison Pen" column for the Times
of London (29 April 2001).
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| "Rude
Health." Richard Ingrams of The
Observer (29 April 2001)begs to differ with Martin Amis on becoming more forgiving of
others as one ages (scroll down to "Rude Health" for Amis
reference):
"It is perfectly true that as one progresses towards the
twilight (to use his moving phrase), there is a regrettable tendency
to mellow and to try to see good points in those one instinctively
find so objectionable.
Such tendencies, I would strongly maintain, should be resisted."
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| "Nutmegged."
In the course of reviewing The War
Against Cliché, Professor Frank Kermode questions the existence of
James Diedrick, which Diedrick affirms in the
Letters section (The London Review of Books, 10 May 2001).
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| "Struggling
Against Dulness." John Banville, novelist and Chief Literary
Critic and Associate Literary Editor of The Irish Times, reviews The War
Against Cliché.
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| Jay Currie of the
Vancouver Sun reviews The War Against Cliché
(15 June 2001). Used by permission.
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| "Writers
Martin Amis Admires, and He Should Know." Michiko Kakutani
reviews The War
Against Cliché for the New York Times (11 December 2001, p.
E7).
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| Michael
Dirda reviews The War
Against Cliché for the Washington Post (16
September 2001).
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| "Amis'
strength is his argument." Duane Davis reviews The War
Against Cliché for the Rocky Mountain News.
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| "Martin
Amis writes about writers — a lot of them." Adam Woog reviews The War
Against Cliché for the Seattle Times (9 December 2001).
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The War Against Cliché nominated
for a National Book Critics Circle Award (29 January 2002).
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| "Amis
and the 'Talent Elite'--Count on a Fancy Prose Style." Adam
Begley reviews The War Against Cliché for the New York Observer
(26 November 2001, p. 10).
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| The War Against Cliché
wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism (12
March 2002). |
