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Before he became famous as the author of “A Clockwork Orange,” Anthony Burgess spent several years working as a teacher in British Malaya. He became fascinated by the culture and folklore of the region, particularly “hantus,” the Malayan word for ghosts of various--and equally unpleasant--types. In 1955, he was confronted by a “hantu” as sinister as anything in his most famous novel, and far stranger. Some years later, he provided an account of his eerie experience to Peter Haining, where it…

The re-release of the Clockwork Orange film in the United Kingdom (on 5 April 2019) provides an opportunity to revisit the turbulent history of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation, which was first shown in New York in December 1971, with the British and European premieres taking place in January 1972. To many people in Britain, Kubrick’s […]

Anthony Burgess was a late starter in the art of fiction. He spent many years as a school teacher in England and Malaya before his first novel, Time for a Tiger, was published in 1956, by which time he was 39 years old. He had previously completed the drafts of two other novels, A Vision […]

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess, because I could probably read him every day.

He disparaged literary journalism in his fiction, but Burgess was a master of the op-ed feature and an exceptionally prolific and punctilious reviewer of books

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess by Jane Bown (1992)