The epigraph to Diane Cook’s story collection Man v Nature is borrowed from Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, “The Wilderness is new — to you. Master, let me lead you.” This epigraph feels even more relevant to Cook’s debut novel, The New Wilderness, included on the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist. The novel is set in some apocalyptic… Continue reading The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In 1990’s England, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines a dystopian alternate reality—a boarding school beset with human clones. This school, Hailsham, is the setting of Ishiguro’s 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go. The novel is constructed as a sort of memoir, narrated by Kathy, an adult female “carer” (the meaning of… Continue reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro