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Fable for the Left

Fable for the Left

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

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Jun 13, 2022
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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…

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