When Fiction Takes On Political News (And The News Is Getting Weirder By The Minute)

A tweet just after Brexit passed in 2016 predicted that 2018 would have a ton of novels set against the backdrop of the vote. Well: “We may not quite have seen the ‘slew’ of novels predicted, but there have certainly been a number of significant ones, enough to have generated their own literary category – ‘Brexlit’ – with an academic book on the subject already promised.”