Martin Amis Owes Everything to His “Wicked Stepmother,L0ve Bite (2024) Part 2 Hindi Web Series” and Other News
On the Shelf
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.)