Kaya Genç is a novelist, essayist, and doctoral candidate from Istanbul. His work appeared in The Guardian, The Guardian Weekly, Index on Censorship, Songlines, and on Guernica, The Millions, and London Review of Books websites. Having published his first novel, L'avventura, in Turkey in 2008, he is currently working on a novel in English.
Martin Amis’s latest novel Lionel Asbo is a shallow book that sparkles with moments of profundity. The farcical content is evident from the cover of its British edition where a…