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Jun 10, 2024 · A book can prompt similar reckonings, and Kunzru’s novel, though it critiques the decadence of the contemporary art world and challenges the art-making impulse, seems to argue for the remedial ...
- Day by Michael Cunningham, released January 18. Published 25 years after his literary masterpiece, The Hours, Cunningham’s new book, Day, taps into the COVID genre’s sense of a distortion of time.
- Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, released February 6. Inspired by Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s book, The Decameron (1353), and a short story collection by the New York Times called The Decameron Project (2020), comes this much anticipated collaborative pandemic novel.
- Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru, released May 16. Kunzru’s portrait of the pandemic is tipped to be the most gripping COVID-noir novel yet. Twenty years after graduating from a London art school, Jay is working as a delivery driver in New York in 2020.
- Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne, released in September. Dubbed “a French punk on the literary scene” and the “literary Balzac”, Virginie Despentes – who was shortlisted for the The Man Booker International Prize 2018 for her novel Vernon Subutex 1 – takes on #MeToo, COVID and social media cancel culture in Wynne’s translation of her new book.
Oct 12, 2021 · Slaughter's novel is what we can describe as a ‘technothriller’, a fiction set in the present or very near future which has a science fictional core premise (a city being quarantined by disease, a rogue nuclear submarine with stealth technology, a terrorist hijacking an orbiting laser weapon 8), but which is otherwise set in a non-science fictional or mundane world.
- Glyn Morgan
- 2021
Oct 12, 2021 · Not because science fiction predicts these things, but because it anticipates the social structures which produce them (while at the same time permeating the culture to the extent that they become the touchstones with which the media choose to analyse current events). This paper demonstrates that science fiction can be a valuable tool to communicate widely around a pandemic, while also acting ...
- Glyn Morgan
- 2021
Aug 21, 2013 · The book's palindromic title suggests as much: disastrous ends yoked to new beginnings, with one flowing into the other in a never-ending cycle. But MaddAddam also tells us, even in the face of a ...
- Paul L. McEuen
- pmceuen@gmail.com
- 2013
Feb 5, 2024 · Atwood herself has already contributed to The Decameron Project, an anthology of short fiction about the pandemic conceived by The New York Times. Boasting big names - Colm Toibin , David Mitchell , Kamila Shamsie - these dispatches from the peak of the catastrophe are an enduring document of a unique time.
Feb 10, 2020 · Last year, the 800-page novel Wanderers combined science fiction and horror with a techno-thriller focus on the rise of artificial intelligence and white nationalism in the aftermath of a pandemic ...
