With the publication of his debut novel, The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis emerged as one of the leading British writers of the late-twentieth century. An essayist and critic as well as a novelist, he is a prolific writer whose work is characterized by biting satire and a savage wit, and has been compared to Vladimir Nabokov and Saul Bellow. House of Meetings, the tale of a former gulag inmate, is a “grim story that builds with a Dostoyevskian sense of doom and a Nabokovian dark wit.” (Booklist)

Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture