Modesty scarcely was Kingsley Amis's long suit, so perhaps it is appropriate that neither is modesty the long suit of Zachary Leader, a British academic who has written, in his gargantuan Life of ...
Kingsley Amis was a prominent British novelist, poet, critic, and satirist best known for his debut novel, Lucky Jim, a seminal work of postwar comic fiction that helped define the so-called "Angry ...
Talk about one fat Englishman. This must be the most substantial single-volume collection of letters in publishing history. Not since the glory days of The Stand or even The Rise and Fall of the Third ...
From the Food & Wine archives, Kingsley Amis delves into the history of gin and how moral panic (and a bit of poison) almost killed it. In August 1981, the legendary author Kingsley Amis wrote an ...