Martin Amis, a giant of British fiction in the late 20th century, died on Friday at 73. This was Amis’s semi-biographical first novel, and it introduced him as an omnivorous wit and dark observer of life. “By turns satirical and tender, funny and disturbing, ‘The Information’ marks a giant leap forward in Amis’s career,” Michiko Kakutani wrote. “Amis’s extraliterary interests, like chess and poker and nuclear weapons, are represented, but briefly,” Jenny Turner wrote in the Book Review. In the Book Review, Tom Bissell called it Amis’s “most beautiful book,” in part for its description of Hitchens’s long death, which will leave “only the most hardened” readers unmoved.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2023 13:52 UTC