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Martin Amis’s writing style was instantly recognisable: caustic and savagely funny with a sense of pathos. His death at 73 marks the end of an era.

His essays captured entire countries. His reviews outlived the books they were about. And his novels were as compelling as they were comic. Here are five indispensable Amis titles

The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.

One of the burdens of having a famous father is trying to measure up to him in the same field.

In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.

Starting with 1984’s Money, the novelist’s run of exceptional 80s and 90s novels had an unforgettable swagger and clout

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Martin Amis, a second-generation literary lion

Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s, died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. He was 73.

He became one of those writers whose private life held as much fascination for some as his work and his often provocative opinions