Heavy Reviews
 


Reviews of Heavy Water

bullet "Trans-Atlantic Flights." Review of Heavy Water and Other Stories by A.O. Scott in the New York Times Book Review (31 January 1999).
bullet Rachel Cusk reviews Heavy Water for the Evening Standard Online  (21 September 1998). (Excerpt: "As Amis's commitment to his writing has deepened, so its critical treatment has grown more facetious. As he has become more meticulous, so his critics have grown lazier").
bullet "Not Such Light Reading." Russell Celyn Jones reviews Heavy Water for The Times (London), 24 September 1998.
bullet "Short but Sweet." Michael Dibdin reviews Heavy Water for The Times (London) 27 September 1998.
bullet Peter Jinks reviews Heavy Water for the Glasgow Herald (15 October 1998).
bullet "Gimmicky Amis Not At His Best." Adam Mars-Jones reviews Heavy Water for ZA@PLAY (11 January 1999)--a review that originally appeared in the Daily Mail & Guardian.[NOTE: Mars-Jones' Venus Envy contains an extended critique of Amis's representation of gender and gender relations).
bullet "Book Review--Upside Down Version." Bill Eichenberger reviews Heavy Water for the Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), 25 January 1999.
bullet "Driven By Faith." Geoff Van Dyke reviews Heavy Water for Impression, an online magazine (January 1999).
bullet "Bookered, Innit?" James Diedrick reviews Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan, for the Authors Review of Books--and compares McEwan's career to Amis's (January 1999).
bullet Laura Miller reviews Heavy Water for Salon (11 February 1999). (This review is in the Salon archive, so you need to search for it from the main "Books" page).
bullet James Diedrick reviews Heavy Water for The Richmond Review, March 1999.
bullet "Pretentious and Hollow." Brooke Allen makes the standard conservative case against Amis for the New Criterion online (March 1999).
bullet "A Heavier Amis." Nathaniel Rich reviews Heavy Water for The Yale Review of Books (Spring 1999).
bullet "The World According To Amis."
Nandini Lal reviews Heavy Water for The Hindustan Times (30 July 1999).
bullet Paraic O'Donnell reviews Heavy Water (1999).
 

 



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