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Part 2 of Lavie Tidhar's in-depth masterclass on prose style

Today the Guardian chose Lavie Tidhar’s novel The Circumference of the World as one of their best books of 2023, Publishers Weekly did so too, and we chose it in October as the best-written recent release in speculative fiction.

Below we present Part 2 of Tidhar’s unique in-depth discussion of various aspects of prose style. Part 1 can be found here.

We’ve just published similar pieces from Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch and Eskor David Johnson, and have pieces on style coming up from the world-class writers listed here.