Grace Linden is a writer and art historian. She lives in London.
Grace Linden
Articles
Many Unsaid Things
Grace Linden considers Kate Briggs’s new translation of “Lili Is Crying,” by Hélène Bessette.
The Unsettled Self
Grace Linden reviews Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”
The Weight of Estrangement
Grace Linden reviews Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Fission and Fusion: On Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake”
Grace Linden reviews Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake.”
Life, Disturbed: On Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special”
Grace Linden reviews Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special.”
Sophomoric Sophomores: On Elif Batuman’s “Either/Or”
Batuman’s follow-up to her Pulitzer-nominated debut is another breathless exploration of college life.
Joy Is Analog: On Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House”
In this sequel to “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” joy resides in the dirt and dust of the world.
The Adjunct Gaze
Two new novels grapple with the precarity of women’s labor in contemporary academia.
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