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The Guardian Weekly
|November 21, 2025
This debut is a brilliant, chronically funny satire of the modern literary scene
Freud would have had a lot to say about a novel in which the central premise is writers being murdered. A manifestation of a repressed desire to eliminate rival literary talent? A clear case of the death drive? Either way, there's some twisted business going on in Andrew Gallix's chronically funny debut novel, Loren Ipsum.
This story is from the November 21, 2025 edition of The Guardian Weekly.
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