Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh confines voice within self-contempt and repression, tracing how interior distortion curdles into violence.
Theme
Isolation
Fiction about isolation and psychological withdrawal — novels in which characters are sealed off from the world, by force or by choice.
Reviews filed under this theme.
The Colony
Annika Norlin studies withdrawal and collective discipline, testing whether communal life shelters or erodes the self.
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica institutionalises horror, rendering cruelty procedural and stripping intimacy to sanctioned function.