Kingsley Amis has a reputation for not liking other people, but - these so-called Memoirs might seem to permit us to enquire - does anyone, could anyone, like him? Is Kingers himself, at the end of the day, the sort of bloke you'd want to run into at - well, at the end of the day, at the club, or the pub, or at some crappy dinner party?

LRB 21 March 1991 | PDF Download