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Book Reviews
A Review of Hallie Elizabeth Newton's "Agnes Lives!"
Bloomsbury | 781639738564 | 256 pages | June 23, 2026 It’s 6:30 am in New York City, and Agnes is filled with lip injector and toxic optimism for her day. She’s a SoulCycle devotee, an ideal girlfriend for her novelist partner Nathan, and a writer for an “anti-fashion” magazine called Whorl, a superior version of W. Over the course of twenty-four hours, her internal monologue never stops, and her goal is simple enough: Agnes wants someone to kill her. Like a feminist After H
Ben Lewellyn-Taylor
Jul 204 min read
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