Style is morality
Martin Amis, 1949-2023
“BOOKS ARE PARTLY ABOUT life, and partly about other books,” the writer Martin Amis declared, appraising what he considered to be the Great American Novel: Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. “Some books are largely about other books, and spawn yet other books,” he continued, but Bellow’s opus “is all about life:…