Liars by Sarah Manguso audiobook review – livid tale of marriage gone awry Rebecca Lowman narrates a superb, claustrophobia-inducing plunge into a relationship descending from bad to worse The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2025
Paula Bomer: ‘If you describe yourself as a victim, you’re dismissed’ Having made waves as part of the alt-lit movement, the US author is poised to go mainstream with The Stalker, her most exhilarating work yet The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2025
The best recent poetry – review roundup Southernmost: Sonnets by Leo Boix; An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello; Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon; Goonie by Michael Mullen; The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2025
Liars by Sarah Manguso review – searing tale of a toxic marriage This compulsive, claustrophobic account of a bad relationship becomes starved of oxygen in the same way the narrator is The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2024
Sarah Manguso: ‘I seem to have hit on a cultural sore spot’ The American author on her rage-filled new novel about the end of a marriage, the extraordinary response to it, and the authors she thinks are most underrated The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2024
Claire Kilroy: ‘My moral compass has turned 180 degrees on Lolita’ The Irish author on the allure of Lolita, the comfort of Yeats and the power of Winnie-the-Pooh The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2024
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso review – chilly legacy of abuse This unnerving debut novel about emotional scars being inflicted down the generations reads like witness testimony The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2022
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso review – a masterclass in unease The American writer’s first novel applies her spare, elliptical style to a creepy coming-of-age tale set in Massachusetts The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2022
Review: 'Very Cold People,' by Sarah Manguso Nonfiction writer Sarah Manguso's debut novel, "Very Cold People," builds a chilly New England coming-of-age story out of vignettes. Tribune News Service · Feb 9, 2022