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Anthony Burgess: Confessions of the hack trade
The following article was published in the Observer in 1992 and is republished in conjunction with the new Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for arts journalismFor more details or to enter click hereThe...
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The Observer/Anthony Burgess prize
Anthony Burgess, the prolific writer and composer best known for A Clockwork Orange, wrote many reviews for the Observer. It's fitting, then, that we and the Burgess Foundation should sponsor a new...
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From the Observer archive, 13 May 1962: A Clockwork Orange reviewed
Kingsley Amis gives his seal of approval to a cheerfully horrific new novel from Anthony BurgessI acclaim Anthony Burgess's new novel as the curiosity of the day. A Clockwork Orange is told in the...
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Happy Birthday, A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess's diabolical tale of juvenile ultraviolence is 50. Five decades on, the novel holds a lofty position as one of pop culture's most influential and enduring pieces of literatureFifty...
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John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles
From Victor Hugo to David Peace, via a certain book by George OrwellQuatrevingt-treize by Victor HugoHugo's final work was a historical novel that dramatised the uprising against the French revolution...
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Characters brought back from the brink
Ian Rankin has announced the revival of Rebus. Other authors who breathed new life into old heroes include Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming, John Updike, Anthony Burgess and even John le CarréThe title...
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James Joyce's Ulysses - reviews from the archive
In celebration of Bloomsday, we look back through the archives at reactions to James Joyce's UlyssesBloomsday, celebrated on June 16 both in Ireland and around the world, is an annual commemoration of...
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Internet sock-puppeteers could learn from some illustrious forebears
Examples of self-reviewing set by Alexander Pope and Walter Scott show the likes of RJ Ellory how it should be doneThe idea of a patron saint of sock-puppetry is more than a little incoherent (perhaps...
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20 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week
A Clockwork Orange, Nigella Lawson, Fancy Nancy Ballet School, Zeebox, ESPNcricinfo and moreAnother week, another 20 new and notable iPhone and iPad apps appearing on Apple's App Store, with books and...
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A Clockwork Orange to scare you all over again
The iPad app of Anthony Burgess's novel is a spectacular winner"A nasty little shocker" was how the TLS described A Clockwork Orange when it was published in 1962. Half a century on, Anthony Burgess...
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Blue plaque in Manchester will honour Anthony Burgess
The plaque will be unveiled today at Manchester University, where the author studied in the 1930sA blue plaque will be unveiled in honour of the Manchester-born author Anthony Burgess, the first public...
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A Clockwork Orange – 50th Anniversary Edition by Anthony Burgess – review
A Clockwork Orange stands as testament to Anthony Burgess's extraordinary ability as a linguistic stylistAnthony Burgess once wrote that the novel's literary singularity lay in "the tension between...
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From the Observer archive, 11 November 1979: Through Gary Gilmore's eyes
Norman Mailer's massive study of the Gary Gilmore case is unlikely to have the impact on capital punishment its author expectedSince the self-elected execution of Gary Gilmore on 17 January 1977, there...
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A Clockwork Orange – review
Soho theatre, LondonPlenty have come a cropper trying to transpose Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella to the stage. But director Alexandra Spencer-Jones and her all-male cast get the closest I've seen to...
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Burgess on Bonaparte: BBC airs Clockwork Orange writer's lost epic drama
Anthony Burgess had a long-term fascination with Napoleon and an adaptation of a lost work will be broadcast on Radio 3A new, unknown work from the vast Anthony Burgess archive in Manchester is to see...
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Better late than never - the Portico Prize 2012
Sorry, the Northerner has been a bit slow to bring you details of the 'Northern Booker' because of other duties, but there's something to be said for slowing journalism down. Here's Ed Glinert who was...
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My grumpiness, by Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange author: From the Guardian...
The author of Clockwork Orange finds middle age does not mellow himI had always expected middle-age to bring calm, indifference, tolerance, a quiescence of the passions, a cooling sorbet before the...
View ArticleThe 10 best books with teenage narrators
With Life of Pi in cinemas, Robert McCrum recalls the best young perspectives, from The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ to Clockwork OrangeRobert McCrumCharlotte Baxter
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Best books apps for Christmas
Why not give the gift of a literary iPad app this Christmas?We've all been there: Christmas Eve, those presents you ordered (through gritted teeth) from Amazon haven't arrived. Either you brave the...
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Happy Birthday, A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess's diabolical tale of juvenile ultraviolence is 50. Five decades on, the novel holds a lofty position as one of pop culture's most influential and enduring pieces of literatureFifty...
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