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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This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism

2 weeks 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

2 months ago | msn.com | Jacob Brogan

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

2 months ago | 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.
‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize

Nov 12, 2024 | washingtonpost.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. So there goes my speech.”
Review: How does Bridget Jones’s Diary hold up as new movie looms?

Oct 9, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Jacob Brogan |Nora Krug |Stephanie Merry |Sophia Nguyen

Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary, the hit movie based on a novel by Helen Fielding. Upon realising there’s a fourth Bridget Jones movie coming in 2025, and that it’s been more than a quarter of a century since her diary became a sensation, staffers at the Washington Post’s Book World decided it was time to read (or reread) Helen Fielding’s novel to see how (or if) Bridget has stood the test of time. Nora Krug: When Bridget Jones’s Diary came out in the US in 1998, I felt seen.
Review | How does Bridget Jones hold up?

Oct 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan |Nora Krug |Stephanie Merry |Sophia Nguyen

Renée Zellweger in “Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.” (Universal/Studio Canal/Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock) Review by Jacob Brogan , Nora Krug , Stephanie Merry and Sophia Nguyen October 5, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Upon realizing there’s a fourth Bridget Jones movie coming in 2025, and that it’s been more than a quarter of a century since her diary became a sensation, staffers at Book World decided it was time to read (or reread) Helen Fielding’s novel to see how (or if) Bridget has stood the...