My review of Anna Kate Blair’s novel, The Modern, was published by Newtown Review of Books this week.
This is a novel to savour, its language crystalline, its acute observations tumbling one after the other. In the opening paragraph, Sophia sits at her computer terminal ‘shining the sentences’ for display labels. An Australian, she has moved to the east coast of America where she completed her PhD and now she is nearing the end of a post-doctoral fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Read the full review here Newtown Review of Books.
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