The Martin Chronicles
Episodes
Lionel Asbo: State of England
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Hampton Heights), Parul Sehgal (New York Times), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2012 comedy about a violent lo...
Night Train
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New York Times), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 1997 mystery novel about suicide, motive...
Money
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 1984 book about sex, cash, and all the thing...
The War Against Cliché
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2001 collection of criticism—and the state...
The Zone of Interest
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2014 novel about Auschwitz—as well as Jona...
Inside Story
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' final novel, 2020's Inside Story, and A...
House of Meetings
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Jason Zinoman (New York Times), and special guest host Willa Paskin (Decoder Ring) discuss Martin Amis' 2006 novel about the So...
The Information
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss the ambitious novel that upended Martin Amis' personal, p...
The Moronic Inferno
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 fre...
The Rachel Papers
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Martin Chronicles debuts with Dan Kois (Slate), Jason Zinoman (New York Times), and Parul Sehgal (New Yorker) discussing Martin Amis' first n...