For The New Yorker Magazine.
FictionJuly 11 & 18, 2022 Issue

“I tell the truth in Chinese, I make up stories in English. I don’t take it that seriously.”

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Kate Atkinson’s Dark Dance with Genre

The novelist has long put her own twist on conventional forms. In “Shrines of Gaiety,” she uses the night clubs of nineteen-twenties London to tell a broader story.

Words by Sarah Chihaya

Oct. 16th, 2022

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