The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000

Spanning three decades, The War Against Cliché showcases Martin Amis’s razor-sharp defense of style and originality, skewering lazy thought and secondhand feeling with wit, precision, and moral intensity.

Martin Amis has long waged his fiercest battles not on the battlefield of fiction, but in the trenches of criticism. In The War Against Cliché, he assembles three decades of essays, reviews, and reflections into a blistering defense of style itself—of clarity, precision, and originality ag...