Keith Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia University and is the author of a forthcoming novel, A Terrible Country, to be published by Viking in 2018.
Martin Amis is the most condescended-to novelist of his time. He is also one of the most literate, funny, quotable and (this the condescenders never neglect to mention) talented.
In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn’t refuse.