The War Against Cliché

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The War Against Cliché (2001) is an anthology of essays, book reviews and literary criticism from the British author Martin Amis. Like his previous collection Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, the book is comprised of many pieces written over the course of Amis' career, beginning in the mid-1970s as a journalist and following up to his period of recognition as one of Great Britain's most acclaimed novelists. The book takes its title from one of Amis' essays, an encomium to James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Amis characterizes that novel as Joyce's "campaign against cliché". Among the many authors reviewed are John Updike, Saul Bellow, Iris Murdoch, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elmore Leonard and Philip Roth. Many of the essays also touch on pet topics of Amis', such as chess, soccer, masculinity, and nuclear weapons.

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Works by Martin Amis
Novels:
The Rachel Papers (1973) • Dead Babies (1975) • Success (1978) • Other People (1981) • Money: A Suicide Note (1984) • London Fields (1989) • Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) • The Information (1995) • Night Train (1997) • Yellow Dog (2003) • House of Meetings (2006) • The Pregnant Widow (2008)
Short stories:
"Two Stories" (1994) • "The Unknown Known" (2008)
Short story collections:
Einstein's Monsters (1987) • God's Dice (1995) • Heavy Water: And Other Stories (1998) • State of England: And Other Stories (1998) • Amis Omnibus (1999) • The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000) • Vintage Amis (2004)
Screenplays:
Saturn 3 (1980) • Northanger Abbey (2002; unproduced) • London Fields (2004; unproduced)
Non-fiction:
Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982) • The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986) • Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993) • Experience (2000) • The War Against Cliché (2001) • Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) • The Second Plane (2008)
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