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/ 10 October 2003
The mantle of Britain’s Greatest Living Novelist settled on Martin Amis young and has grated and gratified ever since. The sneering young man is older, wiser. But when it comes to plot, he’s driving harder than ever, Emma Brockes in London.
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/ 29 September 2003
Seaman rarely gives interviews. During the World Cup, he declined to talk to the press, even before Ronaldinho’s famous shot flew over his head, putting England out of the tournament. Here he speaks about his new career in television, that Ronaldinho goal – and that ponytail.
Some say he’s cold, inhuman, overly intellectual. Some say he’s the greatest American writer of his generation.
While Minister Valli Moosa battles to get South Africans to change their bag habits, an overseas supermarket chain has developed a degradable eco-bag. Emma Brockes investigates whether this will mean the end of the plastic bag as we know it.
In times of strife, it is good to know who your friends are. So, in the absence of support from traditional allies such as France and Germany, it will come as welcome news to British troops in the Gulf this week that when the going gets tough, Azerbaijan is right behind them.
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/ 2 September 2002
Emma Brockes examines the cult of the celebrity memoir — of which there seem to be more every day.