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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.

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

Amis harnessed a rapier wit to a Swiftian eye, a sharp ear, a peerless facility for linguistic construction and the imagination to create a world entirely his…

Conceptualization of the Term

Veteran journalist John Pilger raises the alarm on the lack of dissent against the drive towards war with China.

As someone coming from the sciences, the book was surprisingly relatable and easy to comprehend -- and surprisingly humorous.

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More novels should begin with an unsparing mock review of the pages that lie ahead. “There is no narrative arc, close to zero love interest, skittish occasion

In this new essay, John Pilger recalls the "electric" opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is "a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda" as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.