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2025-06-26 15:27:25 320 views 892 comments

Martin Amis Owes Everything to His “Wicked Stepmother,China Archives” and Other News

By Dan Piepenbring

On the Shelf

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Photography: Maximilian Schönherr, via Wikimedia Commons.

  • Martin Amis pays elegant tribute to his deceased stepmother, who saved him from an early life as “a semi-literate truant.”
  • Chang-rae Lee’s forthcoming On Such a Full Seaboasts the world’s first 3D-printed book cover.
  • How to modernize literary classics (even when cell phones and the Internet bring an infestation of plot holes).
  • Can great literature really change your life? (Quick answer: probably not, but maybe.)

 

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