Articles By Louis Amis
April 2013
Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein's published correspondence is a phoney exercise in literary bitchiness and mutual back-slapping
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January/February 2013
A prodigious command of English, ingenious playfulness, an obsessive eye for detail: David Foster Wallace's essays trump his novels
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October 2012
Nicola Barker's The Yips is a mass-casualty train wreck. Pity her martyred readers
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July/August 2010
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
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March 2010
The World cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics are an incentive and an opportunity to address inequality and drug-related violence in Rio de Janeiro. Will the state try to heal the problems in the favelas, or simply conceal them?
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January/February 2010
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews
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December 2009
The Humbling by Philip Roth
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November 2009
The leaders of a new anti-Islamist group insist they aren't racist or BNP members
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September 2009
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
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May 2009
Austerity and Abundance Special:
London's ‘‘G20 Meltdown’’ protestors didn't know what they were for or against
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April 2009
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
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February 2009
2666 by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer
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January 2009
The Armies by Evelio Rosero, translated by Anne McLean
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December 2008
US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president
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August 2008
The Aeneid by Vergil, translated by Sarah Ruden
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August 2008
This month's small charity making a big difference is The European Roma Rights Centre
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July 2008
This month's small organisation making a big difference is Tostan
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About Louis Amis
Louis Amis is a is a freelance writer, book reviewer and reporter.
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