“I’m not being facetious when I say the epistolary novel should probably be the dominant form of our historical moment. It isn’t, not by a long shot, but it should be.” —Audrey Wollen yalereview.org/article/audr...

Thanks to @samir.help and @southwestreview.bsky.social for this deep dive on my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Reviewed the new Wolf Alice album for @pitchfork.com! pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Making things up is « an opportunity to change ourselves », Samir Chadha writes in his review of the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth's (1959) 5 novels. Maybe changing ourselves begins by adding Hjorth’s novels to our summer reading list. Now un-paywalled: europeanreviewofbooks.com/to-grieve-to...

Delighted to have an essay in this issue, around Vigdis Hjorth, deaths, and crushes!