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INTERVIEW: British novelist Martin Amiss discusses his new novel, Time's Arrow, about a Nazi doctor and time lived backwards.. INTERVIEW: British editor Tom Shippey on time machines and space travel in the new Oxford Book of Science Fiction.

The provocative British writer talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book, Inside Story, which reflects on the significant men in his life, including his father Kingsley, his mentor Saul Bellow, and his closest friend, writer and critic Christopher Hitchens.

To mark the centenary of the birth of Primo Levi - the Italian-Jewish chemist, Holocaust survivor, and writer - Eleanor Wachtel talks to his biographer, Ian Thomson, and to novelist and essayist Martin Amis.

​​​ British novelist Martin Amis has been extremely controversial in his lifetime and has been described as a master of "the new unpleasantness." His most recent novel, The Zone of Interest, revisits the Holocaust from a different angle.

It's all about books that changed a life this week on Writers & Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel chairs a panel at the International Festival of Authors, at which England's David Baddiel, Nigeria's Helen Oyeyemi and American author Francine Prose talk about books that have had a pivotal impact on their careers and their lives.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Bad Boy of Brit Lit - Martin Amis. His new novel, The House of Meetings, is being touted as his best ever. Set in the Russian Gulag, it's a love triangle with a twist.

This week on Writers and Company, Part Two of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with one of England's hottest and most controversial writers, Martin Amis. In this episode, Amis talks about the family: new daughters, a long-lost daughter, family tragedy, but especially his father, novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. Episode includes part of an interview that Eleanor did with Kingsley Amis in 1992, as well as a recording of Kingsley reading from his Collected Poems: 1944-1979.

Eleanor interviews an author described as the cleverest, most entertaining - and most notorious - English writer of his age, Martin Amis. Amis reads from his books The Information and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, and Other Excursions