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All change: The Arrest, by Jonathan Lethem, reviewed

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

The Arrest Jonathan Lethem

Atlantic Books, pp.308, 14.99

This is an Exquisite Corpse of a novel — or if you prefer another name for that particular game, Heads, Bodies and Legs, or Combination Man, or perhaps most appositely Consequences. The parlour game involves creating something and then passing along the hidden creation to which another then adds, and The Arrest reads like Jonathan Lethem playing the game against himself.

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