Iain Reid’s novels fall into one of my favourite fiction categories: works of suspense that aren’t necessarily crime novels, but take the conventions and tropes necessary to inhabit a familiar genre skin. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2016), Reid’s first novel after several works of nonfiction, put the thriller through a philosophical blender, as the female narrator (“the girlfriend”) keeps grappling with the thought of the end of her…
Sarah Weinman
Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World (Knopf Canada).