Saunders’s Vigil: Empathy Across a Fractured America
TL;DR
In a thoughtful review, Pico Iyer praises George Saunders’s Vigil for its humane, unsparing inquiry into reality, suffering, and death, using supernatural figures to blow up political binaries and echo Saunders’s border reporting and Buddhist practice; the piece situates Vigil with Lincoln in the Bardo as part of Saunders’s ongoing project of empathy across divides.
- George Saunders Returns to the Bardo Air Mail
- George Saunders Has a New Mantra The Atlantic
- One of Our Most Acclaimed Writers Is Back With His First Novel in a Decade. It Doesn’t Go Quite Where You’d Expect. Slate
- It’s Lincoln in the Bardo again — but this time it’s baddo The Times
- The Haunted Fiction of George Saunders The Dispatch
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