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In Defense of Martin Amis’ “Lionel Asbo”

Most of the criticism hurled against Martin Amis’ new novel, Lionel Asbo, in his native England accused him of snobbery and prejudice, but Liam Hoare argues that Amis’s real target is the media itself—and they don’t get the joke.

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