A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
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Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.
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Making any kind of art can be an obsessive pursuit, but literature is uniquely suited to depicting monomania.
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