Jacob Brogan

Washington, D.C.

Assistant Editor at Post Everything (The Washington Post)

Co-chair of The Washington Post Guild. Editing book reviews for The Washington Post. Nominal doctor. Pitch me via [email protected].

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Alison Bechdel makes a welcome return to fiction in ‘Spent’

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

Alison Bechdel makes a welcome return to fiction in ‘Spent’ (washingtonpost.com) Alison Bechdel makes a welcome return to fiction in ‘Spent’ By Jacob Brogan 2025052012300000 No artistic border is more poorly defended or muzzily mapped than the wavy line that separates self-consciousness from self-parody. Too many of the greats stumble unintentionally across the divide, and when they do they rarely return.
A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive?

1 month ago | pressherald.com | Jacob Brogan

A note of unease runs through Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel “Your Steps on the Stairs” from its opening line. “I’ve moved to this city to wait for the end of the world,” Muñoz Molina’s narrator tells us. It’s not his apocalypticism that troubles — who among us isn’t thinking eschatologically these days?
A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive?

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive? (washingtonpost.com) A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive? By Jacob Brogan 2025042511000000 A note of unease runs through Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel "Your Steps on the Stairs" from its opening line. "I've moved to this city to wait for the end of the world," Muñoz Molina's narrator tells us.
This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism (washingtonpost.com) This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism By Jacob Brogan 2025040713000000 Philosophical novels almost inevitably stumble into a welcome paradox: Philosophy, at least since Aristotle, has been primarily dictatorial, the product of a single speaker laying out a set of claims at their own pace.
An actress produces a stirring novel about her unreliable father

Feb 17, 2025 | msn.com | Jacob Brogan

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An actress produces a stirring novel about her unreliable father

Feb 17, 2025 | msn.com | Jacob Brogan

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Review | An actress produces a stirring novel about her unreliable father

Feb 17, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

Every idol delineates an absence. We make statues to the gods because they are not here — and to memorialize the moments when we were sure they were. In this sense, “Lion,” the first novel by the actress Sonya Walger, is less an undisguised work of autobiographical fiction than a sort of shrine.
Una obra maestra de la literatura, en una sola oración

Nov 17, 2024 | infobae.com | Jacob Brogan

Cuando te digo que la mejor novela nueva que he leído este año está escrita en una sola oración que se extiende por más de 400 páginas, interrumpida solo ocasionalmente por un punto y coma, casi con certeza pensarás que estoy adoptando trucos literarios por el mero hecho de hacerlo. Sin embargo, ese libro, -Herscht 07769, del genio húngaro László Krasznahorkai- no es ni un experimento teatral ni una pretensión vana.
‘Orbital,’ by Samantha Harvey, wins the Booker Prize

Nov 16, 2024 | spokesman.com | Jacob Brogan

“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes with a cash award of 50,000 pounds (just under $64,000). After being handed the trophy by last year’s winner, Paul Lynch, Harvey said: “I was not expecting that. We were told that we weren’t allowed to swear in our speech.
Review | A literary masterpiece — in a single sentence

Nov 13, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

When I tell you that the best new novel I have read this year is written in a single sentence that sprawls over 400 pages, interrupted only by the occasional semicolon, you will almost certainly think that I am embracing literary gimmickry for its own sake. And yet that book — “Herscht 07769,” by the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai — is neither an experimental stunt nor a pretentious folly.

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8 May 25

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25 Apr 25

No one shares clicks on anything positive on here anymore, but I reviewed a really good novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina that I liked a lot and here is the link: https://t.co/5yakeS291I

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8 Jan 25

RT @PostGuild: A statement from the Guild on today's unconscionable layoffs at The Washington Post. https://t.co/Xnn5NcNJFb