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“... Something​ very strange has been going on. Picking up the paperback of Ocean Vuong’s first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which has now sold more than a million copies, you encounter blurbs the likes of which you’ve never seen before. ‘A marvel,’ Marlon James says. Daisy Johnson tells us that ‘Vuong is rewriting what fiction is supposed to be’ and – forgetting the medium – that ‘it’s a privilege to watch ...”

“... them to others. This posthumous collection of essays discusses lyric poems from John Donne to Ocean Vuong. Most of the pieces begin by quoting an entire poem, which is then set up against a big concept (William Cowper’s poem on the death of one of his pet hares is discussed under the aspect of ‘charm’), so you get the idea that reading poems ...”

“... addresses that were then marketed as inspirational pamphlets. Lately the writers Sabina Murray and Ocean Vuong have argued for reframing the workshops they teach as ‘healshops’, perhaps an inevitable development as trauma has become the nation’s dominant subject matter. Heinrich’s cult in The Subject Steve makes sense as an allegory for a writing ...”