In Person: Martin Amis at Book People

"...first, there was something dubious about the idea of Martin Amis touring behind Night Train - a relatively slender..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Books Feature

The Zone of Interest

Martin Amis revisits the Holocaust in this new novel, which is eloquent and yet lacks depth

"...The Zone of Interestby Martin Amis Alfred A. Knopf, 320pp., $26.95..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Kamp

London Fields

Buried crime drama finally emerges after legal scandals

"...Alexander. Not reviewed at press time. Long-shelved adaptation of Martin Amis' 1989 crime novel, with Amber Heard as a..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review

Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List

Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean

"...Festival was already tantalizing, what with a legend like Martin Amis, rising star Edan Lapucki, and a pair of..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Experience: A Memoir

"...Experience: A Memoirby Martin Amis..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Books Review by Katherine Catmull

Personal Effects

"...Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis Harmony Books, $21 hard I felt a little..."

April 16, 1999 Books Feature by Stacy Bush

The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom

Martin Amis tries breathlessly to evoke the post-9/11 change in the zeitgeist and, less successfully, to find a moral ground from which to respond

"...The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredomby Martin Amis Knopf, 224 pp., $24..."

April 4, 2008 Books Review by Michael Agresta

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...1995. It wasn't the best year in book publishing: Martin Amis - genius or con man? - seemed be..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

News/Print

My mouth is like the motherfuckin' Sahara Desert up in here.

"...in a moment, but that "A" is also for Amis, Martin Amis, and he is where we'll begin today...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama is powerfully distancing

"...only the material that suits his vision. Here, it’s Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name, and what..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

News/Print

Q: Amis, Armey, Avedon? A: The 12th annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest. Plus: Sandra Bullock buys a book.

"...your entry is Monday, Nov. 17... BIG events upcoming: Martin Amis and Yellow Dog at Barnes & Noble Arboretum,..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

First Authors Announced for Texas Book Festival

Marquee names run the gamut from Amis to Ziggy

"...encapsulated in two of the names released this week: Martin Amis and Edan Lepucki. Amis is, of course, one..."

July 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Memories of My Father Watching TV: A Novel

"...blue-collar wrecks who turn up early and often in Martin Amis novels. Barker is strictly small-time. He doesn't want..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Books Review

The Year in Books

What New Book Did You Most Enjoy in 1998 and Why?

"...JS:Night Train, by Martin Amis: A big time "literary" author writes what is..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Feature

Postscripts

New Yorker3

"...tour of the book the week of June 28... Martin Amis will be discussing his new book Night Train..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Top Books

Hard-Boiled Top Ten

"...7. The Information by Martin Amis. Though not his best book, Amis still has..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...Barker (Ecco): The most stylistically assured British novelist since Martin Amis and as sly a storyteller as Ian Sinclair,..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

The Texas Book Festival: Who's Out, Who's In?

The lineup changes slightly as big event draws nigh; schedule now live

"...As will Joyce Carol Oates. And Martin Amis. And Ziggy Marley. And, oh, a couple hundred..."

Oct. 1, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pretty Powerful

Giving the gift of reading

"...Murakami and John Updike, the purely typographic treatments on Martin Amis' The Information and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Turkish Delights

Jay Trachtenberg's top reads of 2014 gave him more insight into the culture of Turkey than a dozen guidebooks

"...tensions that currently exist in the ongoing struggles between Islamists and secularists in this vibrant, modern country...."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Texas Film Awards Class of 2014

"...looks likely to explode with the upcoming adaptation of Martin Amis' novel London Fields and the brand-new Kevin Costner..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Film Awards for Young Guns, Old Lions

Here's the full list of inductees

"...looks likely to explode with the upcoming adaptation of Martin Amis' novel London Fields and Kevin Costner's thriller 3..."

Jan. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

You're All Just Jealous of His Jetpack

Tom Gauld's new collection of comics takes off flying

"...graphically winking at Charles Dickens, Margaret Mitchell, Dan Brown, Martin Amis, Emile Zola, Paris Hilton, and others. And of..."

June 5, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hitch Renewed

Remembering Christopher Hitchens and his call to contrarianism

"...greats at that, like Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Martin Amis. He was not only open to taking time..."

Dec. 17, 2012 Books Post by Larysa Pachulski

Ian McEwan Appears at UT (and in the Pages of 'The New Yorker')

The sprawling profile is a good way get excited about the Booker Prize-winning author's upcoming reading

"...Brit lit pantheon (smoking pot and talking poetry with Martin Amis in the Seventies; secreting Salman Rushdie away to..."

Feb. 19, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Summer Reading

Beyond Texas

"...its stylistic cues from elsewhere – Will Self and Martin Amis kept coming to mind as I read it...."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

News/Print

Authors are not authors in prison; Jessa Crispin should go to prison; Denis Johnson is ACES.

Nov. 28, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense by Martin Amis 3. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Decade 1. Anything by Martin Amis or Don Delillo..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

"...pattern, in other words, to succeeding English satirists like Martin Amis and Will Self. Reading his short stories, the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Review by Roger Gathman

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