![]() ![]() In 2015, literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn attacked her depiction of gay relationships in A Little Life, writing that it “revives a pre-Stonewall plot type in which gay characters are desexed, miserable, and eventually punished for finding happiness” and labelling it as “a regressive and repressive cultural fantasy from the middle of the last century”. ![]() Previously, Yanagihara has been criticised for her writing about gay men, as a woman who is presumed to be heterosexual. Over 700 pages-long, To Paradise explores queer life across different time periods: from an alternate version of 19th century America where same-sex marriage is commonplace to Manhattan in the 90s, where queer men are struggling with the AIDS epidemic and finally, a dystopian future where the world is suffering from plagues and ruled by totalitarian governments. Yanigahara’s highly-anticipated follow-up, To Paradise, will be released Tuesday (11 January). ![]() ![]() In 2015, Yanagihara rose to prominence with A Little Life, described as “an astonishing and ambitious chronicle of queer life in America” by author Garth Greenwell, who suggested it deserves the title of “The Great Gay Novel”. ![]()
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