Say “Kingsley Amis” (1922-95) and most American readers will probably give you a blank look. Twenty-five years ago, the man himself called The Washington Post’s Book World, where I was then an editor, ...

IN HIS NEW MEMOIR, "EXPERIENCE," Martin Amis recounts with wit, warmth and uncharacteristic openness his personal history as Kingsley Amis's son and literary London's enfant terrible. Since he ...

Here is a fun literary experiment: substitute the words ill or illness in Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill” (1930) with the words hung-over and hangover. It works, right? “Hangover is the great ...

Quite a few lovers of English literature raised a glass—specifically a Macallan single malt Scotch with a dash of water—this past April. The occasion? The centennial of the birth of the greatest comic ...

Talk about one fat Englishman. This must be the most substantial single-volume collection of letters in publishing history. Not since the glory days of The Stand or even The Rise and Fall of the Third ...

The Times-Dispatch joins The American Conservative magazine in celebrating the republication of "Lucky Jim" and "The Old Devils" by Kingsley Amis. The book publishing arm of The New York Review of ...

In Experience , the memoir he published last year, Martin Amis confessed to a sad truth: “A writer’s life is all anxiety and ambition.” The memoir was more concerned with other matters-his father, the ...

ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN by Kingsley Amis. 192 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $3.95. No one is better at being beastly to the British than the British. In One Fat Englishman, Kingsley Amis has raised this ...

HIS BIGGEST fear was loneliness. Kingsley Amis could sit in his study all day, with just his flamboyant characters for company, but when the sun set he collapsed into panic if he was alone. The ...