The Martin Chronicles

Oct 29 2024 8 ep. 71 mins 34
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Martin Amis, one book at a time.

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Money

Oct 29 2024 64 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 1984 book about sex, cash, and all the things the novel can do that the movies can't.

The War Against Cliché

Jun 29 2024 82 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2001 collection of criticism—and the state of criticism in 2024.

The Zone of Interest

Dec 18 2023 82 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2014 novel about Auschwitz—as well as Jonathan Glazer's 2023 film adaptation.

Inside Story

Sep 08 2023 80 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' final novel, 2020's Inside Story, and Amis' death on May 19, 2023.

House of Meetings

May 11 2023 65 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Jason Zinoman (New York Times), and special guest host Willa Paskin (Decoder Ring) discuss Martin Amis' 2006 novel about the Soviet gulag, House of Meetings. What are we to make of the novel's monstrous narrator, his pacifist brother, and the Amisian object of desire who divides them (and unites them)? And what is it about the horrors of 20th-century history that

The Information

Nov 13 2022 70 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss the ambitious novel that upended Martin Amis' personal, professional, and dental life: The Information. Dan quizzes Parul and Jason about the details of 1995's wildest lit-world gossip, and the panel argues about a novel about literary envy that inspired £500,000 worth of literary envy before i

The Moronic Inferno

Sep 09 2022 61 mins  
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) leap into the 1980s, when Martin Amis made his living as a hack: a freelance journalist writing about America for British outlets. The Moronic Inferno, published in 1986, collects features about American politics (evangelicism, Reagan, AIDS); profiles of literary and Hollywood stars (Mailer, Spielberg,

The Rachel Papers

May 05 2022 66 mins  
The Martin Chronicles debuts with Dan Kois (Slate), Jason Zinoman (New York Times), and Parul Sehgal (New Yorker) discussing Martin Amis' first novel, The Rachel Papers, published in 1973 when Amis was just 24 years old. Why is Charles Highway so disgusting? Why isn't Rachel Noyes Jewish? And how does the son of a successful, controversial novelist secure his entrée into the liter