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 ...

Say “Kingsley Amis” (1922-95) and most American readers will probably give you a blank look. Twenty-five years ago, the man himself called The Washington Post’s Book World, where I was then an editor, ...

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 ...

Even now, 27 years after she crept out of the house with just two suitcases, Elizabeth Jane Howard tortures herself with regrets about the end of her marriage. Should she have stayed? Could she have ...

Quite a few lovers of English literature raised a glass—specifically a Macallan single malt Scotch with a dash of water—this past April. The occasion? The centennial of the birth of the greatest comic ...

I happened to be in Sarajevo when Kingsley Amis died, in 1995. I was to have lunch the following day with a very clever but rather solemn Slovenian dissident. She knew that I had known Amis a little, ...

Here, in our exclusive adaptation, we see how it destroyed his first marriage: Kingsley Amis and his wife Hilly were on holiday in Yugoslavia and had stopped at a country hotel with a tree-shaded ...

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 ...