Adam Thirlwell’s latest novel begins in revolutionary France and chronicles the travails of its embattled celebrity heroine, Celine, who is being subjected to a campaign of malicious gossip about her sex life. She resolves to cultivate a coterie of influential writers to wrest back control of the narrative – cue earnest meditations on power, misogyny
As his new novel The Future Future is published, Adam Thirlwell talks with Hans Ulrich Obrist about how he overcame his hatred of historical fiction, writing from a woman’s perspective, and why the novel is a “form of control”