9:37 p.m. May 20, 2023: An earlier version of this story stated that Martin Amis received the biggest book advance of his career for his 2000 memoir, “Experience.” He received it for his 1995 novel, ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. We're going to remember novelist, essayist and literary critic Martin Amis, who died last week at the age of 73. The cause was esophageal cancer. He was a member ...

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. By ...

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...