RaveiNews (UK)\"It’s a risky approach to novel writing. But Taylor has a tight grasp on the millennial psyche, the cruel, slippery and tender nature of human interaction, and the fragility of modern existence. It’s with these themes that he ties together seemingly disparate threads ... has more bite than his previous work. Set in Iowa City, the hallowed ground of Iowa’s Writing Workshop (where Taylor studied himself), the novel clamps its teeth into the absurdity of contemporary discourse surrounding class, race, sexuality and art ... Preventing things from slipping into bleakness is Taylor’s wit and a gentle sense of mockery. In a way, the characters in The Late Americans represent the stereotypically entitled millennial – deeply selfish and heavily weighted down by their own ennui. Taylor wants us to laugh at them. He wants us to roll our eyes. Many of Taylor’s readers will know people like these characters – indeed, many of them will feel as if they are the people in this novel. You might be laughing, but only because what The Late Americans is showing us happens to be despairingly true.\
