Flat Earth
On sale
6th November 2025
Price: £14.99
*A book of the year in the Daily Mail and the New Statesman*
‘Hypnotic’ Financial Times
‘Captivating‘ Daily Mail
‘Visionary’ Chris Kraus
Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to be writing, she dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In desperation, she takes a job at a right-wing dating app.
Meanwhile her wealthy best friend, Frances, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish an experimental documentary about rural isolation and right-wing conspiracy theories. Frances’s triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a tailspin, pushing her to make a series of dangerous decisions.
‘Hypnotic’ Financial Times
‘Captivating‘ Daily Mail
‘Visionary’ Chris Kraus
Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to be writing, she dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In desperation, she takes a job at a right-wing dating app.
Meanwhile her wealthy best friend, Frances, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish an experimental documentary about rural isolation and right-wing conspiracy theories. Frances’s triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a tailspin, pushing her to make a series of dangerous decisions.
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Reviews
Witty and poignant ... funny and sharp ... beautiful
If Mary Gaitskill and Renata Adler spent a weekend collaborating on a sequel to Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, maybe you'd have some precedent for Flat Earth. Anika Jade Levy's razor-thin, razor-sharp debut novel is unlike anything I've ever read before. In fragments that blaze like iPhone faces in dark bedrooms at 3:00 a.m., Flat Earth captures a zeitgeist from its daily ephemera to its unhinged gestalt, transmuting the mess into a brilliant, visceral, funny, provocative, resonant, essential work of art
Set in a post vibe-shift New York inhabited by edgy artists and aspiring trad wives, a strange and smart addition to the canon of novels about young women coming undone in big cities ... I read this book the same way I sometimes scroll through X late at night: quickly, compulsively and with an intense worry for the fate of the world
Charged with a gleeful apocalyptic energy ... a briskly enjoyable generational portrait
Strangely hypnotic ... crisp, pitiless prose
In the tradition of Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be?, with the doggedness of I Love Dick and apocalyptic girlscaping of a Henry Darger painting, Flat Earth's Avery explores (with her scroll finger bleeding) both the art parties of New York and the internet, searching for answers to how she should live, and more importantly, what she should write. A captivating, fast, fun, devastating, insane, alarming, super modern novel... the reading-high I got from Flat Earth kept me offline for at least three days
Slim and sharp ... late-stage capitalism segueing into techno-feudalism, eco-pessimism, a moral arc of the universe that seems to bend not towards justice but away from it ... bleakly relevant to all of us
Flat Earth is delivered in the calm, deliberate style of a great work of art which has always existed and is only now being uncovered, an especially impressive quality given that it concerns itself with the end of girlhood which is to say the end of the world. A novel to be torn through and passed around and treasured
Glittering ... gorgeously spiky ... juicy and tantalisingly zeitgeisty ... a deliciously accurate description of how life looks at 26-and-a-half ... Expect to see it in the manicured hands of cool girls very soon
Irreverent and freewheeling, Anika Jade Levy writes about the sexual marketplace with precision, insight and sharp wit. Flat Earth is so much fun you might forget about the end of the world
Brilliant, sardonic, utterly original ... destined to become a cult classic
Clever, cool and current
Wild, witty ... roaringly contemporary
Slim but beautiful. You'll want to carry Flat Earth around like a prayer book
Flat Earth is like a walking tour through one of the hells of the present - a visionary satire,
bitterly funny with traces of sweetness. I couldn't stop reading it
Not to be missed if you want to keep up with the literary zeitgeist
A compulsively readable portrait of our times