Emerging Critics 2021

The cover of The Rabbits, showing a Hills Hoist and overgrown lawn, indicates something hiding in this suburban household, even as an outsized sun bears down, reminding us of the deep shadows it can cast.

One of the pleasures of Mother & I is joining Ware in the gradual discovery of his mother’s multitudinous character.

The precocious teenage girl looms large in pop music, a culture that has always been enamoured by stories of youthful ingenuity.

That there is no recovery for Blaine as such, that his subsequent path does not offer the pleasures of a neatly resolved narrative, becomes a way of considering broader cultural and political ills.