David Means
Instructions for a Funeral by David Means review – brawlers and bawlers
David Means’s latest collection of American stories confirms his standing as a master of the form
Tim Adams
31, Mar, 2019 @9:00 AM
Hystopia by David Means review – bewilderingly brilliant
This Booker-shortlisted writer uses the ‘novel within a novel’ device to explore the darkness of pain and trauma
Anita Sethi
12, Feb, 2017 @9:00 AM
Hystopia by David Means – review
Traumatised Vietnam vets maraud the streets of a reimagined 60s America in this ambitious but problematic contender for this year’s Booker
Anthony Cummins
16, Aug, 2016 @6:00 AM
David Means: ‘You can’t take a story and just stretch it out – that does not a novel make’
The books interview: the celebrated short story writer on getting to grips with the longer form, history as fiction and trying to capture the absurdity of Vietnam
Hermione Hoby
30, May, 2016 @1:00 PM
Hystopia by David Means review – the virtuoso short story writer’s tricksy first novel
In an alternative version of 1970s America, the Vietnam war grinds on and on; but the urgent, unspoken presences on this novel’s pages are the veterans damaged by the US’s recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
Laura Miller
21, May, 2016 @6:30 AM
The Spot by David Means – review
James Lasdun finds blighted beauty in a fine collection of stories
James Lasdun
27, Nov, 2010 @12:06 AM
Observer review: Assorted Fire Events by David Means
David Means chisels a dangerous geography out of a bleak American landscape in Assorted Fire Events
Tim Adams
31, Mar, 2002 @2:41 AM
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