• The Martin Chronicles

  • By: Dan Kois
  • Podcast
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The Martin Chronicles

By: Dan Kois
  • Summary

  • Martin Amis, one book at a time.
    © 2023 The Martin Chronicles
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Episodes
  • The Zone of Interest
    Dec 19 2023

    Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2014 novel about Auschwitz—as well as Jonathan Glazer's 2023 film adaptation. 

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Inside Story
    Sep 9 2023

    Dan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' final novel, 2020's Inside Story, and Amis' death on May 19, 2023. 

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • House of Meetings
    May 12 2023

    Dan Kois (Slate), Jason Zinoman (New York Times), and special guest host Willa Paskin (Decoder Ring) discuss Martin Amis' 2006 novel about the Soviet gulag, House of Meetings. What are we to make of the novel's monstrous narrator, his pacifist brother, and the Amisian object of desire who divides them (and unites them)? And what is it about the horrors of 20th-century history that makes a novelist like Amis prick up his ears?

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    1 hr and 6 mins

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