7/2/2023 0 Comments Real Life by Brandon Taylor![]() What’s changed in Taylor’s work is not his subjects but his style. ![]() After dropping out of his graduate studies in pure math, he proctors exams and tries to overcome his social anxiety by going to the occasional grad-student party. In Taylor’s stunning new story collection, “ Filthy Animals,” several characters still experience that kind of distance - particularly one who appears in many of the stories, a young Black man named Lionel who lives a sort of university-adjacent life in the Midwest. Last year, reviewing Brandon Taylor’s Booker Prize-shortlisted debut novel, “ Real Life,” I mentioned the protagonist’s “emotional distance” becoming “the fulcrum of the plot.” If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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