Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 <p>As summer’s end draws near and students start packing, eight novels that capture the absurdity, drama, and pitfalls of university life. Sam Munson salutes ...

What is today’s reader offered by the work of Kingsley Amis? This may not seem an especially pertinent question to ask of a writer who only died in 1995, but in art the recent past can sometimes ...

Here is a fun literary experiment: substitute the words ill or illness in Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill” (1930) with the words hung-over and hangover. It works, right? “Hangover is the great ...

America gets reintroduced to the original Amis. Wander into the literature section of any large American bookstore, and you will see amassed Martin’s fleet of Vintage paperbacks, including his ...

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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 ...

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