Fiction since 2020 has had an almost unfair amount of reality to compete with. Pandemic isolation, political fracture, economic anxiety, addiction, technology, race, and the feeling that ordinary life can change shape overnight were already sitting outside the window. The stand-out novelists, therefore, did something more interesting than chase the headlines. They found voices and structures capable of making that instability intimate.
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