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