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Theme

Power

Fiction tracing authority and dependency — in institutions, relationships and the quiet coercions of daily life.

Reviews filed under this theme.

David Szalay

Flesh

Action replaces reflection, where strength operates as currency and consequence accumulates without interior account.

R. F. Kuang

Yellowface

In Yellowface, R. F. Kuang turns plagiarism, publishing ambition and online outrage into propulsion. The novel moves quickly, even as its satire reduces people to instruments.