David Tyler·Apr 20The Lovely WarMartin Amis understood that certain horrors cannot be approached frontally. You do not walk up to the monstrous and describe it. You circle…
Ingrid Gustafsson·Mar 21, 2025Martin Amis: The Punk Rocker of English LettersMartin Amis didn’t write books. He lit fuses. His novels didn’t unfold — they exploded, scene by scene, leaving characters in tatters and…
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan Tailby·Feb 6, 2024The Zone of InterestA real life horror based on a novel by Martin Amis. Filmed almost wordlessly, sound and seeing (or not seeing) become all here, as is the…
InILLUMINATIONbyGareth Ceidiog Hughes·Aug 21, 2023Martin Amis makes me feel like a thoroughly mediocre writerHow could I ever feel like I’m great at writing when I know his body of work exists?A response icon11A response icon11
Robert Edwards / The King's Necktie·Jul 15, 2023The Air Crash Inspector: An Interview with Martin AmisA never-before-published interview with Martin Amis, on the Holocaust as literary terrain, that my wife Ferne Pearlstein and I conducted in…
Amrita Menon·Jun 23, 2023Martin Amis: Exploring the Complexities of Human Existence through LiteratureBorn on August 25, 1949, Martin Amis is an acclaimed British author known for his distinctive writing style, wit, and incisive observations…
InILLUMINATIONbyRichard Capogrosso·May 26, 2023Angry Man with a PenMartin Amis, arguably the greatest, but certainly the most unique English writer of his time, died on May 19, 2023A response icon2A response icon2
Radhika Ghosh·May 24, 2023“The Immortals” by Martin AmisLooking into the future through a pair of unreliable eyes.
Alan Davis·May 21, 2023Martin Amis is dead. Long live Martin Amis.When I think of the late Martin Amis, who died Friday in Florida at 73 of the same esophageal cancer that took the life of Christopher…
Johnnie Burger·May 21, 2023Martin Amis has died at 73He was a great writerA response icon1A response icon1
