The American novelist and short story writer on idiosyncratic book titles, her preoccupation with grief, and Donald Trump’s refusal to go away
Martin Amis
There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts
His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
The culture wars are not a diversion - they are the language, the style, of politics. One does not exist in a separate realm to the other
It turns out that I don’t want anyone else’s take. I want Amis’s own report. I want another Amisian dispatch from the front lines of experience
Writer, known for titles such as Money and London Fields, died of cancer of the oesophagus, says wife
A new documentary puts the dictator’s lasting and insidious influence under the microscope
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Mary Minihan recalls the challenges and thrills of her student days in England
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Just as Newton experimented with light during the Black Death, I could experiment with the grooming habits of the Iron Age
There is a long history of actors deriding poorly received work, with Cats star Rebel Wilson being the latest
Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experience
As literature’s oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works
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