Some of the mugs, like Keith Talent’s from London Fields by Martin Amis, look appropriately creepy, and the sketch of Humbert Humbert from Lolita is especially interesting, as it’s based on character description that’s inherently unreliable. Are these...

By contrast, some of his international contemporaries — Peter Esterhazy, Damon Galgut — go so far as to insert their own names in their work to dismiss the distance between author and character, to invoke the sensibility of a diary. And others, like...

1982, The New Statesman decided the unlikeliest book title possible would be My Struggle by Martin Amis; 30 years later, it would have to be My Struggle by Robert Harris. The English writer's first novel, Fatherland, became a runaway bestseller in 1992,...

Nicola Six, a character in Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, is the archetype of the femme fatale. She seduces an unworldly man with the pretense of inhibition; one of her weapons is deliberately unsexy underwear. When her victim is finally allowed to...

Because, as the years go by, it is becoming steadily clearer that Larkin is the post-war British poet who matters most, on every level, from his influence on other poets to his permanent, ready presence in the minds of all his readers — for he is, as...

Hayes must certainly be the only Canadian writer who has taught high school on three continents and been graced with a cover blurb from Martin Amis. It’s impossible to enter this story collection without vaulting hopes. We open with A Feel for America...