Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish
The Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural addiction to violence.
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Anna Leszkiewicz
Anna Leszkiewicz is associate editor, culture and interviews, at the New Statesman.
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