The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

By Martin Amis

Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields, presents a collection of essays on the "moronic inferno," aka the United States of America.

A thrilling tour of late-twentieth-century America through the eyes of one of Britain's most canny and caustic cultural critics.

In The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis turns his razor-sharp intellect across the Atlantic, ensnaring the United States in a trap of its own contradictions. From the gaudy sanctimony of televangelists to the myth-making machinery of Hollywood, the literary titans of postwar fiction to the grinning facade of Reagan-era politics, Amis dissects American life with an outsider's clarity and a satirist's glee.

Collected from his essays and reportage throughout the 1980s, these pieces showcase Amis at his most observant, irreverent, and unnervingly on point. Reading them now, one can't help but wonder: what would he make of our own moment--of influencers, strongmen, mass delusion, and digital spectacle?

The Moronic Inferno is not just a portrait of a country--it's a dispatch from the front lines of a cultural condition that has only grown more surreal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250398983
• ISBN13: 9781250398987
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"