If not equal to his best novels, Kingsley Amis’s short stories are still wonderfully entertaining, says Philip Hensher
Some writers of short fiction — there doesn’t seem to be a noun to parallel ‘novelist’ — are dedicated craftsmen, like Chekhov, Kipling, William Trevor, Alice Munro or V.S. Pritchett. Others, like Evelyn Waugh or E.M.
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