Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor, the acclaimed author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life, returns with a deeply resonant novel that delves into the complexities of young adulthood. The Late Americans captures the lives of a group of friends - Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah, and Fatima - as they navigate the turbulent waters of self-discovery and connection in a contemporary university town. At the...

In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young adults in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with...

Real Life follows Wallace, who has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms—a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, living a life that feels a world away from his childhood in Alabama. Although his father died a few weeks ago, Wallace has neither gone...

Over a hot summer in New York, a painter falls for a priest in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor. Minor Black Figures is a story set over a hot New York summer, where Wyeth, a young Black painter, finds himself trying to carve out a space within Manhattan's contemporary art scene. Sharing a studio...

A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression to the rise of consumer culture, artists we call “modern” faced the challenge of responding imaginatively...