Lucy Ellmann

An utterly original novel, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, in which one woman navigates, through a compelling inner monologue, the tension and disquiet of contemporary America. An Ohio mother bakes pies while the world bombards her with radioactivity and fake facts. She worries about her children, caramelisation, chickens, guns, tardigrades, medical bills, environmental disaster, mystifying confrontations at the supermarket,...

There are three forms of strike I’d recommend: a housework strike, a labour strike, and a sex strike. I can’t wait for the first two. The first collection of essays from Lucy Ellmann, Things Are Against Us is everything you might expect from such a fiery writer—which is to say, entirely unexpected. Bold, angry, despairing and very, very funny, these...