Marcus Berkmann

More matter with less art

His verbal pyrotechnics fizzle and crack, but they can’t conceal a fundamental shortage of ideas, says Marcus Berkmann

issue 25 February 2017

When A.A. Gill died last December, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth across the nation. I must admit this came as a surprise to me, but then I hadn’t read him for many years, having developed a ferocious dislike for the Sunday Times too long ago now to remember quite why.

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