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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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Amis 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). |
