Martin Amis and Howard Jacobson

Martin Amis’s new satirical novel is Lionel Asbo. There’s not a smarter, cleverer writer alive,” wrote The Washington Post. “He’s a riveting stylist who walks across every sentence as though it were a line stretched taut between wit and erudition.” Howard Jacobson’s new novel is Zoo Time. His writing “has the kind of energy that you have to look at through your fingers, like an eclipse,” wrote Jonathan Safran Foer. “As the brightness of his brilliance is hard to look at, so is the darkness of his humor. I don’t know a funnier writer alive.”