Reviews round-up
Will There Ever Be Another You
by Patricia Lockwood
4 of 6 critics positive
9 reviews: 1 rave, 3 positives, 2 pans; 3 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“is a wild and singular pleasure”
Patricia Lockwood’s diary of a madwoman
“confirms her place as a major contemporary writer”
Patricia Lockwood’s dispatches from the brain fog
“captures the strangeness of ordinary life for the chronically ill”
Patricia Lockwood’s Mind-Opening Experience of Long COVID
A Novel That Captures the Agony and Absurdity of Covid Brain Fog (Published 2025)
“I never thought I’d find a Patricia Lockwood novel so boring”
I never thought I’d find a Patricia Lockwood novel so boring
“More Netflix comedy special than literary novel”
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood: More Netflix comedy special than literary novel
“Wayward connection in chaos”
Book review: Wayward connection in chaos
“catching Covid intensifies her relationship to language”
Hearing Your Ears Pop | Frances Wilson
“the story of a breakdown”
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside
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