Fable for the Left

The post-pandemic decline of autofiction and the search for a new leftist counterculture

This is a state-of-literature post on the shift from autofiction to more enchanted narratives in our “post”-pandemic moment by way of a review of two of 2022’s biggest titles: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona. It runs long. Read it in chapters!

PS: I’ll be discussing my novel The Visitors online with Joshua Cohen (who, uh, just w…