Brandon Taylor

Author Archive

  • Oct 7, 2025
    Brandon Taylor’s Minor Black Figures (Riverhead, $29)—his fourth book of fiction—is an ambitious departure from his previous work. The novel takes up...
  • Jul 21, 2025
    To make a forced and artificial division, we might say that there exist Jane Austen novels of youth and folly: Emma and Northanger Abbey. The novels of coming-of-age...
  • Jul 16, 2025
    OCEAN VUONG’S 2016 DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, received a rave review from Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times Book Review, then the...
  • Jun 16, 2025
    Dear Republic, Brandon Taylor is one of the very most interesting writers around, and it’s an honor to feature him as we inaugurate The Republic of...