Samir Chadha

American Fire Sale: Notes on a Westward Journey By Federico Perelmuter

❄️ Read the first drop from our winter issue!

Hit the road w/ Fede Perelmuter in AMERICAN FIRE SALE | NOTES ON A WESTWARD JOURNEY 🚗

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Audrey Wollen: On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye In her review of Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye , Audrey Wollen meditates on desire and absence in life and letters.

“I’m not being facetious when I say the epistolary novel should probably be the dominant form of our historical moment. It isn’t, not by a long shot, but it should be.” —Audrey Wollen
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I Hear That You and Your Band | Chris DeVille’s Such Great Heights By Samir Chadha

Thanks to @samir.help and @southwestreview.bsky.social for this deep dive on my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s

For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Wolf Alice: The Clearing Read Samir Chadha’s review of the album.

Reviewed the new Wolf Alice album for @pitchfork.com!
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Making things up is « an opportunity to change ourselves », Samir Chadha writes in his review of the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth's (1959) 5 novels. Maybe changing ourselves begins by adding Hjorth’s novels to our summer reading list. Now un-paywalled: europeanreviewofbooks.com/to-grieve-to...

And thank you to @georgeblaustein.bsky.social and Wiegertje for transformative editing!

Delighted to have an essay in this issue, around Vigdis Hjorth, deaths, and crushes!