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...excursion into journalism, criticism, memoir, short stories and genre fiction. Doubts crept through the world of letters. Shots were taken, publicly, by the likes of Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt. People found his immense talent obtrusive and, frankly, kind of irritating. Now Amis' first big novel in eight years, Yellow Dog (Miramax Books; 340 pages), has arrived in the U.S., still charred and smoking from vicious attacks in the British press. Does he, not to put too fine a point on it, still have...
...hero of Yellow Dog, such as he is, is a mild-mannered and dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar fight, he changes. He becomes primitive, abusive, constantly battling volcanic surges of rage and horniness. The new Xan is a man who "seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior...
There are problems with Yellow Dog, and not small ones. It tries to be structurally clever, but several of its strands either get tangled up with one another or fail to tangle up properly. But through it all, one feels that Amis writes the way he does not to show that he can, but because what he has to say is just too important for prose that is less than painfully acerbic, relentlessly intelligent and pitilessly funny. The men in Yellow Dog are both Jekyll and Hyde, stunned and trapped by lust and anger...
There are currently no definite plans for how the renovations will proceed, and the input of students and donors are essential to inform such blueprints. When increasing capacity and making field improvements, the University of Michigan also placed a yellow halo around its stadium with quotes from its fight song—an adornment that drew the ire of alumni donors and students alike. While we trust Harvard’s designs to be more sensible, seeking input first would guarantee satisfaction among all relevant parties. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and others have expressed concern about fundraising...
...answer (to the third) question is that the current threat level is “yellow,” or “elevated.” Obviously I had to cheat and look it up on the Department of Homeland Security website. In any case, I have no idea what “yellow” means in practice. And while I really ought to find out, I have to run. You see, I’m meeting someone for lunch...