For the Guardian, John Mullan and a panel of judges survey debut novels.
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Narrative Technique
For The Guardian‘s book club, John Mullan selects Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis.
Reverse chronology mocks what we know. New York cabs finally make sense. “They’re always there when you need them . . . They always know where you’re going. No wonder we stand there, for hours on end, waving goodbye, or saluting – saluting this fine service”.
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Tagged guardian, john mullan, martin amis, uk
All Critics Now
The Times Literary Supplement has a review by John Mullan of Rónán McDonald’s The Death of the Critic.
Nowadays, there are more critical responses than ever, but critical authority has been devolved from the experts. McDonald surveys the rise of blogs and readers’ reviews, of television and newspaper polls and reading groups, under the heading “We Are All Critics Now”. He argues that the demise of critical expertise brings not a liberating democracy of taste, but conservatism and repetition.
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Tagged book review, criticism, john mullan, literature, ronan mcdonald, tls, uk