Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. In his novel The Pregnant Widow (2010), Amis examined the sexual revolution of the 1970s and its repercussions on a group of friends who lived through it. The story is set in a castle owned by a cheese tycoon in Campania, Italy, where Keith Nearing, a 20-year-old English literature student; his girlfriend, Lily; and her friend, Scheherazade, are on holiday during the hot summer of 1970, the year that Amis says "something was changing in the world of men and women". Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children .

The Marxist critic Terry Eagleton, in the 2007 introduction to his work Ideology, singled out and attacked Amis for this particular quote, saying that this view is "[n]ot the ramblings of a British National Party thug, [. So the blow intended merely to break his cheekbone or his jawbone was instead received by the cranium, that spacey bulge in this instance still quite marriageably forested where so many delicate and important powers are so trustingly encased. I can point out the exact place where he stopped [reading Amis's novel Money] and sent it twirling through the air; that's where the character named Martin Amis comes in. Somber en ongewoon, veral die tweede, oor 'n dierbare klein hondjie wat sy plek probeer vind tussen mense iewers in 'n apokaliptiese toekoms. Scott praised Amis's "reckless bravado and his terrifying cleverness, both of which are abundantly evident.

And in ‘State of England,’ Mal, a former ‘minder to the superstars,’ discovers how to live in a country where ‘class and race and gender were supposedly gone. Money (1984, subtitled A Suicide Note) is a first-person narrative by John Self, advertising man and would-be film director, who is "addicted to the twentieth century". Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. It tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university; [28] It has been described as "autobiographical" [25] [17] and was made into an unsuccessful 1989 film. Experience (2000), an autobiography that often focuses on his father, was acclaimed for an emotional depth and profundity that some reviewers had found lacking in his novels.

Though Amis was careful to point out in interviews that this was a “fairytale world” rather than an accurate depiction of Britain, the savage satirical intent was unmistakably blunt.

Heavy Water', portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and 'State of England' its weird resuscitation. But a more seemingly permanent departure came in 2010 as Amis moved to what he himself recognised as the somewhat clichéd novelist’s nirvana of a Brooklyn brownstone. House of Meetings saw some better critical notices than Yellow Dog had received three years before, [71] but there were still some reviewers who felt that Amis's fiction work had considerably declined in quality.