Martin Amis Summary

"Wit and talent and mordant perception ... Martin Amis is surely by far the most interesting of the new English writers," proclaims Dennis Potter on the dust jacket of Amis's latest novel Other People... Read more

In the following essay, Powell provides overviews and analyses of three of Amis's early novels, The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies, and Success. Success is a funny thing. In literature (as K.W. ... Read more

In the following predominantly negative review, Ratcliffe discusses some of the "bad writing" that is present in The Information, noting that while parts of the tale are sincere and �... Read more

In the following review, Eder lauds Amis as "dark, satirical and gifted with irascibility." However, he does find fault with Amis's lack of "inventiveness" and the a... Read more

In the following review, Loose discusses the themes, strengths, and weaknesses of Amis's novel The Information. Clearly, for Martin Amis, enough is nothing like enough. To read him is to dis... Read more

In the following review, Morales discusses briefly the plot, themes, and autobiographical elements of The Information, praising some aspects of Amis's writing and faulting others. With The I... Read more

In the following negative review, Ward faults The Information, saying it "does not have a plot, it has predicaments and events." He also declares that "none of the characters in T... Read more

In the following negative review, King calls Visiting Mrs. Nabokov "gossipy" and "egotistical," and dismisses the collection of journalistic pieces as "pretty misera... Read more

In the following essay, Alexander discusses the influences of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov in Amis's work, focusing on London Fields, Money, and The Moronic Inferno. Martin Amis's... Read more