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In some other parallel world, Kingsley Amis' alternate-history novel "The Alteration" (1976) may already have the wide readership it deserves. Amis (1922-'95) is best known today for his campus novel ...

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"What you put into fiction isn't the things that happen to you, it's (what) the things that happen to you make you think up." Zachary Leader quotes this observation by the English novelist, poet, ...

America gets reintroduced to the original Amis. Wander into the literature section of any large American bookstore, and you will see amassed Martin’s fleet of Vintage paperbacks, including his ...

Say “Kingsley Amis” (1922-95) and most American readers will probably give you a blank look. Twenty-five years ago, the man himself called The Washington Post’s Book World, where I was then an editor, ...