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Books

Ben Lerner’s much hyped latest novel reads like an audit of contemporary grievances

16 November 2019

9:00 AM

16 November 2019

9:00 AM

Things keep recurring in the novels of Ben Lerner — snatches of conversation, lines of poetry, Lerner himself. But in The Topeka School, while things keep returning, something has also been lost.

Lerner’s third novel reunites us with Adam Gordon, the protagonist — and Lerner surrogate — of his much acclaimed debut, Leaving the Atocha Station.

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