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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…
The great British novelist, who has died at seventy-three, had a true literary vitality that was high-spirited and farcical.
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A preview of Saturday's page sand a round-up of the latest literary news
When Martin Amis’s debut The Rachel Papers was published, 50 years ago this year, it was a literary and cultural sensation, won the Somerset Maugham Award, and spawned a lot of copycat novels that were very male, very London, very brattish, and certainly haven’t stood the test of time.
The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work