How should Covid show up on the page? This strange chapter in recent history is so clearly defined by public health information and government mandates that to depict this world of masks, sanitisations and social distancing is as heavy handed as using webcams as visual shorthand in film and TV.

Those of us forced indoors do not need the dull reminder of this time, when collective cabin fever had us all believing that clapping on our doorsteps meant something . But neither should this recent period be erased from art. 

Patricia Lockwood, with her flair for abstract witticisms and unique philosophical musings, might just be the perfect writer to document that unprecedented time. Her second novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, reads like the brainchild of both her memoir Priestdadd

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