Also brilliantly mocking is Terry Eagleton on Craig Raine's new sort-of novel.A pair of female nipples are 'asymmetric hernias'. There is much rustling of the author’s Things I Saw Today that Look A Bit Like Other Things notebook. This is a poetry conceived in the wits rather than the soul ( Read more... )

Last weekend Terry Eagleton was complaining about the lack of politically-engaged writers in Britain. I'm not sure what politics he expects them to support, other than opposing the war in Iraq, which will surely be over in a couple of years and then all the world's radicals will have to find something new to get upset about. Whilst insulting ( Read more... )

Argh, I think I've read about a million reviews of the Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins books about religion, and every single review is shit. Either it's bishops finding some slightly questionable argument on page 156 or it's some atheist jumping up and down and going "ha ha, poo on you!" Probably the best review was that by Terry ( Read more... )