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Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor review – portrait of a working-class artist in New York

This novel is stacked with ideas about Black art and aesthetics – but its language is too clumsy and academic to bring them to life

The Guardian - UK

Lawsuit by New Orleans truck attack victims says city, contractors failed to implement safety system

Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack are suing the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers from an Army veteran who sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon…

The Independent UK

New Orleans attack victim’s fiancee condemns city over security failings

Heather Genusa, engaged to Brandon Taylor, calls decision not to place barriers on Bourbon Street ‘a horrible disgrace’

The Guardian - US

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An Ivy League football player, a cook, a mother: the victims of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans

Those who died on Bourbon Street had gathered to celebrate the new year and were locals, tourists, students and parents

The Guardian - US

From Dua Lipa’s book club to George Saunders’ Substack: a guide to the online books world

From BookTube to podcasts, newsletters and tweets, literature is finding ever-more new homes. Here are some you should definitely be browsing

The Guardian - UK

18 of the best dark academia books

Mischief and mayhem within dramatically scholarly settings

Evening Standard

Top of the List: the best things to watch, read and cook in Australia this weekend

In a new weekly column, the team behind pop culture newsletter Saved for Later recommend their latest and/or forthcoming obsessions

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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore and Bellies by Nicola Dinan.

The Independent UK

Meet Brandon Taylor: from scientist to the next great American author

Booker-nominated author Brandon Taylor is back with a new novel, The Last Americans, which is set to enhance his reputation as one of the most exciting and uncompromising voices in literature. Jason Okundaye meets him

Evening Standard

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a class act

A college campus in the midwest provides the setting for this expansive novel of sex, politics and self-discovery

The Guardian - UK

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a real university challenge

Inert characters mar the Real Life author’s new novel – a study of education, economics and desire set on a campus in America’s midwest

The Guardian - UK

'The Late Americans' is not just a campus novel

Brandon Taylor deftly explores the idea of youth's possibilities and the constraints of time, space, class and wealth disparities through the intersecting lives university students and townspeople.

WEKU

Brandon Taylor: ‘Writing is the most fun I’m capable of having’

The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel

The Guardian - UK

Friends and frenemies pursue life, love and MFAs at a Midwestern university

FICTION: Brandon Taylor follows grad school novel 'Real Life' with another look at the lows of higher learning.

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The Independent UK

Book Review: Brandon Taylor is back with a new campus novel, 'The Late Americans'

Brandon Taylor has written a new campus novel, his third book in as many years

The Conversation

To read or not to read? Is that the question?

In June this year, a six-month-old interview went viral.

The Independent UK

Brandon Taylor's 'Filthy Animals' wins $20,000 Story Prize

Brandon Taylor’s “Filthy Animals” has won the Story Prize, a $20,000 honor for works of short fiction

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