Lucy Thynne

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Deputy Literary Editor at The Telegraph

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these time-bending books are the sensation of the spring

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

Tara Selter has lived through the same day 121 times. As On the Calculation of Volume begins, she's waking to her 122nd. "It is the 18th of November. I have got used to that thought. I have got used to the sounds, to the grey morning light and to the rain that will soon start to fall in the garden... I no longer expect to wake up to the 19th of November, and I no longer remember the 17th of November as if it were yesterday."She is a woman caught in time.
A novel of sex, success and transgression among young Americans

Jan 22, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

Clare Sestanovich writes about women who struggle to say what they want. Her debut collection of short stories, Objects of Desire (2021), was a skilful portrait of protagonists in search of direction. The same is true of her first novel, Ask Me Again, whose young protagonist, Eva, is surrounded in New York by peers who already seem to know what they want – and often show it in performative ways online – while her own drift into adulthood is marked by fluctuating confidence.
The strange rivalry of California’s two most glamorous writers

Nov 4, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

Seventies glamour: Eve Babitz, l; Joan Didion, r Credit: Mirandi Babitz, The Huntingdon Library/Getty Eve Babitz lived, and wrote, outrageously. As a child, she nearly killed her baby sister with an electric heater she put in her cot. She wrote her best letter straight out of Hollywood High, to the author of Catch-22: “Dear Joseph Heller. I am a stacked 18-year-old blonde on Sunset Boulevard. I am also a writer. Eve Babitz.” Two years later, she posed in one of the most famous photos of the...
The best poetry books of 2024 so far

Oct 14, 2024 | msn.com | Declan Ryan |Tristram Fane Saunders |Luke Kennard |Lucy Thynne |John Clegg |Shane McCrae

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A Nobel-winning novelist offers a horror story to remember

Sep 9, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

9 September 2024 • 1:15pm Olga Tokarczuk, author of The Empusium Credit: Lukasz Giza/Fitzcarraldo Editions The Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk may have impressive stature in the literary world, but to many in her native Poland, she’s a targowiczanin: an old-fashioned word for traitor. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (first published in Polish in 2009), a blend of murder-mystery and paean to William Blake, stirred controversy for its criticism of the Church and defence of animal...
There’s no lockdown quite like motherhood

Jul 8, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

Kate Zambreno, author of The Light Room The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson said that when he took a picture, it was his “way of saying yes”. Yes, I am here: “It’s an affirmation. Yes, yes, yes.” Much the same feeling runs throughout the American writer Kate Zambreno’s work, in her feverish need to self-confirm.
This sharp novel exposes the 21st century’s ‘identity swizz’

Apr 17, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

Castleton in the Peak District, Derbyshire Credit: joe daniel price In the climactic scene of Sunjeev Sahota’s fourth novel, The Spoiled Heart, there’s a ferocious argument. Nayan, a leading figure in a Midlands trade union, is facing down his political rival, Megha.
Forget Little House on the Prairie – these American stories are slim and strange

Apr 13, 2024 | msn.com | Lucy Thynne

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Forget Little House on the Prairie – these American stories are slim and strange

Apr 12, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Thynne

Mail boxes by a prairie road in rural Wyoming Credit: Dermot Tatlow The filmmaker Agnès Varda said that if you cut her body open, you would find beaches.
The seven best poetry books of 2024 so far reviewed

Mar 1, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tristram Fane Saunders |Luke Kennard |Lucy Thynne |John Clegg

Gboyega Odubanjo, author of Adam, died in August 2023 Credit: Asare Debrah/Faber July: Adam by Gboyega OdubanjoAdam is Gboyega Odubanjo’s first full-length book of poetry.