Mia Levitin

A hazardous crossing: The Man Who Saw Everything, by Deborah Levy, reviewed

Having twice been a contender for the Booker Prize, will Levy finally make it this year, with her new novel presently on the long list?

issue 24 August 2019

Serious readers and serious writers have a contract with each other,’ Deborah Levy once wrote. ‘We live through the same historical events, and the same Pepsi ads. Writers and readers, nervously sharing this all too fluid world, circle each other to find out what the hell is going on.’

Figuring out what the hell is going on within the fluid worlds of Levy’s fiction is not always straightforward.

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