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Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2021 The Observer
It’s a tough time to be a debut novelist, with so many of the usual channels for promoting new writing suspended or curtailed. The
Observer’s pick of this year’s first novels will be published in a country whose bookshops are closed, and whose literary festivals have been postponed or made virtual. It therefore feels particularly important to celebrate these books, to make sure that they receive the profile and plaudits they deserve.
This is the eighth year in which the
New Review team has read through dozens of first novels, looking for books that leap out from the crowd, writers who speak with powerful, fresh voices. Our record is pretty good. Last year we were the first to champion Douglas Stuart’s
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The Vestiges, and how this textâs creative practice critically examines the processes of
neoliberalization in the present. With citational poetics, I see Derksenâs writing copy and comment on multiple textual forms in order to depict the poemâs role in social observation alongside its ability mobilize and array these textual forms against structures that far exceed the structure of the poem itself.
The Vestiges in turn displays how the disparate materials of the long neoliberal moment and the traces of its manifold processes â from critical theory and chart topping hits to overthrown governments â can be brought to bear on the present, and specifically how mobilizing these different kinds of textual and historical matter locate citational poetics within a wider project of anti-capitalist research.