The unwitting enslavement caused by money is a topic that many writers have examined (particularly in George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying). Martin Amis’ novel, Money, is a simultaneous homage and slandering of it. Detailing the spiral of John Self, a director of commercials with a weakness for alcohol, money and pornography, we are content to watch him go mad from materialism after being given … Continue reading “Money” Makes the World Go Round