Senitmentality

“The point being, I am coming to know you, too ... It’s what I do, how I pursue love.” Being known in Thomas Phillips’ sixth novel, where horror-infused atmospheres collide with searing cultural critique and ample levity, isn’t necessarily preferable. Love is infinite, and exquisitely haunted, the protagonist contends, to the degree that it abolishes the prison house of sentimentality. How this abolition unfolds is where folly ends and dynamic darkness begins.