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Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘I’m not brainstorming ways to freak people out’

The acclaimed author on her post-Covid novel Lapvona, the influence of Ingmar Bergman and the Brothers Grimm, and the draw of England in the 90s for her next book

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2023

Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally?

The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona

Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel. In a recent survey of critical responses, writer Rich Juzwiak noted that there is strikingly little consensus among reviewers:

The Conversation · Aug 29, 2022

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh review – a carnival of the grotesque

Plot plays second fiddle to humanity’s primal urges in Moshfegh’s charged and outlandish latest novel set in a medieval fiefdom

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2022