Frances Wilson

Could Leslie Jamison please stop sitting on the fence?

The American novelist and essayist has been hailed as a genius. But her much vaunted tolerance is becoming unbearable

issue 30 November 2019
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  • Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

    Leslie Jamison

    Granta, pp. 257, £14

Leslie Jamison is creating quite a stir in America. Her first collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, went straight to the New York Times bestseller list, and this second collection comes crowned in laurels: ‘She’s an unstoppable force of nature,’ says her American editor. ‘This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best,’ says Eleanor Catton.

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