A Cold War between the US and China, a grey war between Russia and Europe, and the advent of space as a competitive domain, all point to greater geopolitical risk ...

The travel writer and novelist on ignoring woke politics, smoking opium in Afghanistan and the book that broke his marriage ...

The book saw Barnett lumped in with the then vogueish “angry young men” alongside figures like Kingsley Amis and John Osborne, though it had little public impact.

This is obviously true of the authors whose books really move us. But the internet smashed ... Everyone could be like Kingsley Amis writing to his friend Philip Larkin when he said that that talking ...

Kingsley Amis describes an old devil's difficulties with novels. Freddie finds it hard to concentrate. One immediately feels a certain sympathy. In an essay published recently, Amis suggested that ...

Kingsley Amis was a prominent figure in English letters from the mid 1950s on, but whether this was because his clubbable personality automatically attracted publicity or because there was enduring ...

The lineage of the English comic novel, for instance, runs smoothly from Fielding to Dickens, Dickens to P.G. Wodehouse, Wodehouse to Evelyn Waugh, Waugh to Kingsley Amis, and from Amis ... and his ...