Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generati
on. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the pas
t quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Ja
ne Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, F.
