Martin Amis was the son of three fathers—one actual parent and two literary forebears—Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Bellow. From Kingsley, he inherited comedy. (Often this was low comedy.

I only saw Martin Amis in person once, at the opening of Brooklyn Bridge Park in August 2012. He was there to read from his new book, Lionel Asbo: State of England, a send-up of British tabloid ...

I am a sentinel, here from a foray to the front lines of the old guard to relay that shit is not looking good out there. New novels from Don DeLillo and Martin Amis, two of the remaining dons of the ...

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Martin Amis, the celebrated enfant terrible of British books, a man whose gift for piercing prose and razor-sharp observational comedy lit up the literary scene, has died at his home in Florida at the ...

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Hilary Remley is a News Writer at Collider. She is a recent graduate of SUNY Albany. Martin Amis has died at the age of 73. Amis was the author of The Zone of Interest, a novel recently adapted into a ...

His wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, confirmed his passing Saturday to The New York Times, saying the cause of death was esophageal cancer. Amis died Friday at his Lake Worth, Florida, home after a ...

Martin Amis' new novel, "The Pregnant Widow," is about the lifelong consequences of a 20-year-old English lit major's summer at an Italian castle full of tempting young women in 1970. It has been ...

FILE - British novelist Martin Amis poses in the living room of his new home in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Aug. 17, 2012. Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his ...

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