The Rub of Time

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction û his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous collection, æAmis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He makes an effort, he makes readers feel that they are the only person there.Æ