Amis Archive

  • The Pregnant Widow — Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, 2010)

    The Pregnant Widow — Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, 2010)

    Wes Brown reviews the long awaited Amis novel, 'The Pregnant Widow' (Jonathan Cape, 2010).

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  • Martin Amis — The Pregnant Widow

    Waiting for the Pregnant Widow

    With Gore Vidal in mind, Martin Amis once wrote, “you can be too intelligent to be a novelist, but never too intelligent to be an essayist”. This advice applies to Martin Amis, who’s critics regularly complain of his insistent ‘Amisness’.

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  • The Other Amis

    The Other Amis

    “I see it differently.” Says Ronan Bennet, “Amis's views are symptomatic of a much wider and deeper hostility to Islam and intolerance of otherness”. Ronan Bennet sees it differently. Good for him. Otherness is exactly what Amis his been banging on about in the ‘world-flash’ post 9/11.

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