Alexandra Kleeman on the Dystopian Present

Photo: Djeneba Aduayom

“You try to write your future novels, and that might be the hardest target to hit because the future is just coming at us so quickly.”

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novels Something New Under the Sun (2021) and You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. In 2020, she was awarded the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize.