The enduring appeal of a midcentury Japanese novelist who wrote of alienation and suicide. By Andrew Martin The first thing you hear is an eerie synth tone, followed by a portentous, insinuating ...

His death on Friday at his home in Florida, from cancer of the esophagus, was confirmed by his agent, Andrew Wylie, on Saturday. Amis was the son of another British writer, Kingsley Amis.