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Lost in allegory: The Wall, by John Lanchester, reviewed

19 January 2019

9:00 AM

19 January 2019

9:00 AM

Dystopian fiction continues to throng the bookshelves, for all the world as though we weren’t living in a dystopia already, and the latest entrant to the glum-futures category is John Lanchester’s The Wall, about which much can be divined from a glossary of the capitalised nouns that throng it from the title onwards.

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