A cultural critic's perspective on Rachel's book and its significance in addressing various topics such as gossip, late capitalism, and personal experiences.
As a cultural critic , she always struck me as kind of a one-off: someone who was able to take stern issue with cultural and literary trends without ever coming off as humorless or aridly contrarian. Whether she’s writing about the value of gossip, essayists whose whole deal is saying that everything is “late capitalism,” or profiling the English novelist Gwendoline Riley, Rachel ’s voice is always effortlessly original and stylish.
arrived last year, it seemed to me like a book that needed to be written. So many debut novels—so many books of all sorts, really—feel like their primary reason for being brought into the world is that their authors just really wanted to write a book. Rachel’s book felt to me, though, like the work of a writer who had a lot of things to say: about her home city of Belfast, about family, about grief, about being a young person in the world. It felt like a book that needed to exis
Rachel Book Cultural Critic Debut Novel Belfast Family Grief Young Person
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