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    -WIKIPEDIA: Martin Amis
    -Martin Amis Web
    -PODCAST: TheMartin Chronicles: Martin Amis one book at a time (Dan Kois)
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    -OBIT: British Author Martin Amis Dies at 73: He is best known for novels ‘Money: A Suicide Note,’ ‘London Fields’ and ‘The Information’ (Ginger Adams Otis, May 20, 2023, Wall Street Journal)
    -OBIT: Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 (Dwight Garner, May. 20th, 2023, NY Times)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis’s Comic Music: The great British novelist, who has died at seventy-three, had a true literary vitality that was high-spirited and farcical. (James Wood, 5/20/23, The New Yorker)
    -OBIT: Martin Amis, Influential Writer, Dead at 73: His stylish fiction and nonfiction addressed grand moral questions (TOBIAS CARROLL, 5/20/23, Inside Hook)
    -OBIT: Martin Amis’s death is the end of a great British comic tradition: The novelist leaves a distinctive and distinguished legacy (Alexander Larman, May 20, 2023, Spectator)
    -OBIT: Martin Amis, a second-generation literary lion (Barney SPENDER, May 20, 2023, AFP)
    -OBIT: Martin Amis, British writer who cast caustic eye on society, dies at 73 (Brian Murphy, May 20, 2023, Washington Post)
    -OBIT: Martin Amis obituary: Writer whose acrobatic wit defied gravity and solemnity and who epitomised literary fame in an age of glitz and hype (Boyd Tonkin, 5/20/23, The Guardian)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure: A memorial for the novelist was a reminder that language should be a source of joy. (Tom Gatti, 6/12/24, New Statesman)
    -TRIBUTE: ‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor (Tina Brown, 6/10/24, The Guardian)
    -PODCAST: Remembering Martin Amis (NY Times Book Review, 5/26/23)
    -TRIBUTE: The Sardonic Inferno: At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden. (Matt Hanson, 2 Jun 2023, Quillette)
    -TRIBUTE: “The British Male!”: On Martin Amis (The Paris Review, May 26, 2023)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis, Cinephile (ABHRAJYOTI CHAKRABORTY, 6/07/23, Hazlitt)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis, R.I.P. (RICHARD BROOKHISER, May 20, 2023, National Review)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis’s confrontational genius: Not many novelists, even the very greatest, have a career that lasts fifty years (Philip Hensher, May 22, 2023, Spectator)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis knew the horror of words: Debased language is the tool of the dictator (DAVID PATRIKARAKOS, 5/21/23, unHerd)
    -TRIBUTE: Losing a Brother in Martin Amis (Ian McEwen, May. 22nd, 2023, The New Yorker)
    -TRIBUTE: The liberal complacency of Martin Amis: His exquisite style hid a squalid sense of morality (TERRY EAGLETON, 5/22/23, UnHerd)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis’s Comic Music: The great British novelist, who has died at seventy-three, had a true literary vitality that was high-spirited and farcical. (James Wood, 5/22/23, The New Yorker)
    -TRIBUTE:William Boyd on his friend Martin Amis: ‘He was ferociously intelligent – and very funny’(William Boyd, 22 May 2023, The Guardian)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis was Mick Jagger in literary form, I was besotted with his electrifying prose (Geoff Dyer, %/21/23, The Guardian)
    -TRUBUTE: ‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game (Lisa Allardice, 22 May 2023, The Guardian)
    -TRIBUTE: Rediscovering Martin Amis: He made reading, and writing, fun (Ben Sixsmith, 21 May, 2023, The Critic)
    -ESSAY: The Winter of The Information: Revisiting the four-month scandal that made Martin Amis the center of the literary world. (DAN KOIS, MAY 20, 2023, Slate)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis, 1949–2023: A craftsman whose abhorrence of cliché helped create greatness. (BILL RYAN, MAY 22, 2023, The Bulwark)
    -TRIBUTE: The voice of a generation: Martin Amis, 1949-2023 (David Herman, 5/23/23, The Article)
    -TRIBUTE: The dark genius of Martin Amis: His brilliant satires of 1980s Britain reflected a unique literary talent. (James Heartfield, 5/23/23, spiked)
    -TRIBUTE: Fizz and Moxie Martin Amis was both a master and a progenitor of the English idiom. (Jonathan Clarke, May 24 2023, City Journal)
    -TRIBUTE: MARTIN AMIS, R.I.P.: On the late British novelist. (Matthew Walther, May 23, 2023, The Lamp)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis Against Mediocrity: Cliches are dangerous because they turn into ideology. (Emina Melonic, Splice Today)
    -TRIBUTE: Good Night, Sweet Prince: Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son. (A. O. Scott, 5/22/23, NY Times)
    -TRIBUTE: Martin Amis and Apocalypse: The late author had long warned of the danger of nuclear catastrophe. (James W. Carden, May 27, 2023, American Conservative)
    -TRIBUTE: Other Writers Seem Asleep by Comparison (Jennifer Egan, May. 26th, 2023, The Atlantic)
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    -REVIEW: of The Dean's December by Saul Bellow (Martin Amis, LRB)
    -WIKIPEDIA: Koba the Dread
    -BOOK SITE: Koba the Dread (Penguin Random House)
    -EXCERPT: First Chapter of Koba the Dread
    -ESSAY: The palace of the end: The first war of the Age of Proliferation will not be an oil-grab so much as an expression of pure power (Martin Amis, March 4, 2003, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Lightness at Midnight: Stalinism without irony (CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, SEPTEMBER 2002, The Atlantic)

Writing toward the very end of his life, a life that had included surprising Stalin himself by a refusal to confess, and the authorship of a novel—The Case of Comrade Tulayev—that somewhat anticipated Darkness at Noon, Victor Serge could still speak a bit defensively about the bankruptcy of socialism in the "midnight of the century" represented by the Hitler-Stalin pact. But he added,

Have you forgotten the other bankruptcies? What was Christianity doing in the various catastrophes of society? What became of Liberalism? What has Conservatism produced, in either its enlightened or its reactionary form? ... If we are indeed honestly to weigh out the bankruptcies of ideology, we shall have a long task ahead of us.

In the best sections of this book Amis makes the extraordinary demand that, in effect, the human species should give up on teleology and on all forms of "experiment" on fellow creatures. He is being much more revolutionary here than perhaps he appreciates.

    -INTERVIEW: Martin Amis in Conversation with Olga Slavnikova (The New Yorker, 6/13/12)
    -INTERVIEW: Martin Amis, The Art of Fiction No. 151 (Interviewed by Francesca Riviere, ISSUE 146, SPRING 1998, Paris Review)
    -PROFILE: A VERY ENGLISH STORY (Jonathan Wilson, February 26, 1995, The New Yorker)
    -TRUBUTE: Martin Amis, by a woman who loved him (By Alys Denby, 5/24/23, CapX)
    -BOOK LIST: Six Essential Books by Martin Amis (Tobias Carroll, 5/21/23, Inside Hook)
    -ESSAY: Why We Should Read Martin Amis (Riley Moore, 1/09/21, Quillette)
    -TRIBUTE: The Singular Robert Conquest (JAY NORDLINGER, September 10, 2015, National Review)
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    -ESSAY: Son of Saul: Martin Amis and Saul Bellow (Jeffrey Meyers, 10/15/23, The Article)
    -PROFILE: Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?: Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks (David Herman, 10/02/20, the Critic)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread by Martin Amis (Paul Berman, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Anne Applebaum, Slate)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Neal Ascherson, The Guardian)

Amis has loved two men who have found reasons not to dismiss what happened after October 1917 in Russia as an inexcusable moral atrocity. These two are his late father, Kingsley Amis, and Christopher Hitchens. Kingsley Amis, before his spectacular conversion to the right, was a member of the Communist party from 1941 to 1956. Hitchens was never a Stalinist, but he stayed loyal to an intellectual Trotskyist view of the Bolshevik revolution, which honoured Lenin and blamed Stalin for deforming the revolution into a state-capitalist dictatorship. Amis is asking how could they have. But of course he is also asking how could I have, how can I continue to love them?

    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Complete Review)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Michiko Kakutani, NY Times)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Jason Cowley, The Observer)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Charles Taylor, Salon)
    -REVIEW: of Koba the Dread (Paul Daley, The Age)
    -REVIEW: of House of Meetings by Martin Amis (Joan Acocella, the New Yorker)
    -REVIEW: of House of Meetings (Thomas Mallon, Washinhgton Post)
    -REVIEW: of THE SECOND PLANE: September 11: Terror and Boredom By Martin Amis (Warren Bass, Washington Post)
    -REVIEW: of Inside Story by Martin Amis (New Statesman)
    -REVIEW: of Inside Story (Ronald K. Fried, Daily Beast)
    -REVIEW: of Inside Story (Douglas Murray, UnHerd)
    -REVIEW: of Inside Story (declan Fry, Australian Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of The Pregnant Widow (Jenny Turner, LRB)
    -REVIEW: of Martin Amis: the Biography by Richard Bradford (Brian Finney, LA Review of Books)
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    -REVIEW: of Night Train by Martin Amis (Adam Phillips, LRB)
    -ESSAY: The End-Of-History Smart Set: From '60s radicals to pro-war liberals, the West's last literary clique now seems a relic of the 20th century. That isn't such a bad thing. (Matt Purple, 5/28/21, American Conservative)