Jun
Martin Amis, at his new home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Dec
Martin Amis Goes on the GOP Campaign Trail
The narrative on the absent Jon Huntsman is “absent.” So apart from the two likely finalists, chameleonic Romney and avaricious Gingrich, we were left with Rick Santorum (“work in progress”), Ron Paul (“shame he’s so elderly”), the gorgeous corpse of Rick Perry (“can only count up to two”), and the equally decorative, and equally discredited, Michele Bachmann (“very creepy husband”).
Oct
The Price of Civilization - Jeffrey Sachs
This book is superb and I highly recommend to all. It reads almost like a scientific, well-argued manifesto of the Occupy movement (Sachs has given at least two great speeches to the protesters). Very smart, thought-provoking, and valuable.
Aug
Aug
Jul
I was 24, and this is the condition: pretending to know everything, while knowing nothing; pretending to be sure, while being always uncertain.
But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some innocence, just for a while.
- Martin Amis, “Experience”
