Hanya Yanagihara returns post “A Little Life” with a genre-hybridising, sprawling and ambitious epic, whose characters have the same sense of interiority as JB, Willem, Malcolm and Jude, but whose canvas is bigger and more operatic. It’s an impressive novel, extraordinarily constructed, that rewards assiduous readers, or those prepared to go back and properly appreciate … Continue reading Review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

The favourite to win the Man Booker Prize later this month, Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel charts the life of the physically and emotionally scarred Jude St Francis, and the friends who desperately try to stand between him and the “hyenas” that torment him. Heartbreaking and unsettling, but beautiful and enthralling, A Little Life is a … Continue reading Review: A Litle Life by Hanya Yanagihara