Martin Amis
Martin Amis’s books include Money, London Fields, Time’s Arrow and Lionel Asbo. He was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1983.
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Fiction | Issue 100
The Unknown Known
Martin Amis
A satire on fundamentalism in this extract from an unpublished manuscript.
Fiction | Issue 87
Northanger Abbey
Martin Amis
Jane Austen’s novel ‘Northanger Abbey’ was published posthumously in 1818. Martin Amis adapted it for Miramax Pictures in 2001. The film has yet to be made. This is how it begins.
Fiction | Issue 63
The Coincidence of the Arts
Martin Amis
‘Round about, a thousand conversations missed a beat, gulped, and then hungrily resumed.’
Fiction | Issue 47
Author, Author
Martin Amis
‘Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing.’
Fiction | Issue 36
Time’s Arrow (Part Three): The Conclusion
Martin Amis
‘Your shoulder blades still jolted to the artillery of the Russians as they scurried eastward.’
Fiction | Issue 34
Time’s Arrow (Part Two)
Martin Amis
‘Nine nights later we woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly. “Shtib,” he grunted.’
Fiction | Issue 33
Time’s Arrow
Martin Amis
‘I came rushing upward out of the blackest sleep to find myself surrounded by doctors.’
Fiction | Issue 25
The Murderee
Martin Amis
‘This is a true story, but I can’t believe it’s really happening. It’s a murder story, too. I can't believe my luck.’
Fiction | Issue 13
The Time Sickness
Martin Amis
‘Before me through the restraining bars, the sunset sprawls in its polluted pomp, full of genies, cloaked ghosts, crimson demons of the middle sky.’
Fiction | Issue 4
Let Me Count The Times
Martin Amis
‘Vernon made love to his wife three and a half times a week, and this was all right.’