Category Archives: Obituaries

Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Roundup

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Spectator has posted a memorial tribute to its recently deceased columnist Jeremy Clarke. This is by David Goodhart who writes that he gave Clarke his start as a journalist. Clarke’s longest and best known gig was the Low-Life column … Continue reading →

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Martin Amis R. I. P. (1949-2023)

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist and critic Martin Amis has died at the age of 73. Dwight Garner, a book critic of the New York Times, opens that paper’s obituary with this: Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction … Continue reading →

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