Monthly Archives: February 2008

Bermondsey 1983

An edited version of this piece about the 1983 Bermondsey by-election appears this week in Time Out.
[UPDATE: The edited, published version is here.]
Nearly twenty-five years ago, in late February 1983, Tariq Ali devoted his ‘Frontlines’ column in Time Out to the by-election campaign then taking place in Bermondsey. Beneath the headline ‘Bigotry and the Bermondsey [...]

More than a whoop

Surveying the state of American letters in 1928, Edmund Wilson complained that he had searched in vain for a “genuine literary criticism” that did more than simply “let out a whoop” for the books it approved of. Where was the criticism that dealt seriously with “ideas and art”? Where was the writer who was “at [...]

The Second Plane

This interview with Martin Amis appears this week in Time Out.
Martin Amis’s study, which occupies part of a converted garage behind his house in Primrose Hill, shows the signs of work in progress: his laptop sails on a tide of paper and there are books everywhere, in teetering piles or splayed in medias res [...]