Lost Children’s Archive: A Novel (Longlisted, 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction)

In a recent interview for The Guardian Valeria Luiselli complained that we demand too little of the novel as readers or as students of the form. In upholding “relatability” and “empathy” as praiseworthy qualities, we mistake what are  entry level virtues for the high bar. It goes without saying then that this is an ambitious Read More