Cirrus@Austlit

'What kind of novel is most suited to these times of political and ecological instability, resurgent authoritarianism, misogyny and surveillance, an era where human complexity is reduced to simplistic identity categories and binary issues? Yumna Kassab’s The Theory of Everything is an ambitious answer. Both one book and five short books – or perhaps five short stories and five experimental texts – its fractal structure is intriguing and elusive.' (Introduction)