PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksSylvain Neuvel\'s The Test offers a chilling vision of national decline, bureaucratic mania, and entrenched xenophobia in post-Brexit Britain ... The novella conforms to the aesthetic protocols of what Jane Elliott calls \'the microeconomic mode\'...all about what happens to agency when matters of life and death are reduced to the binary logics of rational choice ... What The Test makes plain is that there’s nothing inherently liberating about choice.
