Martin Amis Audio & Video

Martin Amis, Brian Boyd and Chip Kidd pay tribute to Vladimir Nabokov and read from his posthumous work, The Original of Laura.

After an introduction by Mr. Bellow Mr. Amis spoke about the concept of masculinity in modern literature, especially in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Robert Bly.

At the heart of this collection is the long essay Terror and Boredom, an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it....

Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine....

The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change....

There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Women would travel continental distances in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people....