Anne Margaret Daniel

The inventor of gonzo journalism: Hunter S. Thompson, in his heyday in the 1960s

How fear and loathing of Nixon sent Hunter S. Thompson crazy

Anne Margaret Daniel 16 February 2019 9:00 am

Hunter Stockton Thompson blazed across the republic of American arts and letters for too short a time. When in February…

Haruki Murakami. Credit Elena Seibert

Gatsby in Japan: Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami, reviewed

Anne Margaret Daniel 20 October 2018 9:00 am

Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore was published in Japan in February last year. Early press releases for this English version hailed…

Wampanoag chief Metacomet (c.1639 - 1676) who, after years of tolerating the colonists in Massachusetts, finally rebelled against their continued encroachment upon his lands, in what became known as King Philip's War (he was called King Philip by the settlers)

Good first novels without ends leave one wanting more

Anne Margaret Daniel 22 September 2018 9:00 am

Novels today do not want to be done. Thank Anthony Burgess and John Fowles for this, most immediately, but alternate…

A previously unpublished photograph of Dylan in 1981

Bob Dylan is a modern-day Odysseus

Anne Margaret Daniel 9 December 2017 9:00 am

‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.’…

Regretful nostalgia: F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925

Borne back ceaselessly into the past

Anne Margaret Daniel 24 June 2017 9:00 am

‘I do not like the idea of the biographical book,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor Max Perkins in 1936.…

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