"The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People

"His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike

"Topics gallop from fopless sunbathing to airplane crashes and nuclear holocaust....Amis disassembles with humor and insight, digging to the Zen of the sport with often hilarious results...he's dazzling." —The Ottawa Citizen

"Amis's latest collection of essays have the range and appealing ragbag variety of work done on assignment...amusing...bright." —The New York Times

"What I'm a fan of is whatever...Amis is writing about...he'll reward you...with frank and informed entertainments that use language with a subversive vigour." —The Globe and Mail

"By the time he's done he'll have shown you something you've never seen in exactly that way before, and you'll feel more alive for that." —The Montreal Gazette

"A gifted novelist...an entertaining storyteller....Amis penetrates the facade of the star-making machinery with sardonic precision and exposes the absurdity of show-biz celebrity...
Amis's...entertaining essays...left me anxiously turning the pages." —Kitchener-Waterloo Record

"Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions is a good place to introduce yourself to this literary anthropologist, or perhaps a chance to figure out what you already enjoy about his novels. [Amis's] cynicism gets more acute but it's still fun to tramp along beside." —The Edmonton Journal