The Rise of the ‘Adderall Novel’

“In August: all the pharmacies in New York run out of Adderall: A Supply Chain Breakdown,” begins Anika Jade Levy’s 2025 debut novel, “Flat Earth.” What follows is a story told in hasty paragraphs, pithy fragments and cynical dispatches from a conspiracy theory-infested America. Yet the novel, while uniquely contemporary, joins a larger canon of fragmentary novels that resonate in our digital age of dwindling attention spans.