As its title implies, We Are Not in the World inhabits a hazy purgatory—temporal, spatial and psychological. Heartbroken after the end of an affair with a married woman, Paddy dusts off…
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Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel, as she tweeted, is “about being very inside the internet and then being very outside of it”. It follows published poetry collections including Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014)…
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Hilary Leichter’s debut novel grew out of a short story published in the literary magazine n+1 in 2012. The gig economy and its attendant anxieties have only expanded since. “I have…
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Following his International Dylan Thomas Prize-winning short-story collection, Lot (2019), Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is what he calls “a gay slacker dramedy”. With exquisite attention to the ever-shifting spaces between…
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The first short story Shirley Hazzard ever wrote was plucked from the slush pile of the New Yorker by William Maxwell, the magazine’s long-standing fiction editor. Maxwell, who would go on…
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Phil Klay’s first novel takes a line from Seamus Heaney’s ‘Kinship’ as an epigraph: “Report us fairly, how we slaughter / for the common good.” It’s a theme continued…