A honeycomb of books-within-books. Collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
Haunted and frustrated by whimsy ... Another interesting thing about Your Name Here is how relentlessly its structure works in the other direction, pushing the book outward toward diffusion, expansion, even drift ... Despite many vivid moments, Your Name Here never really achieves this kind of alchemy; on the contrary, it remains what it is: a quirky but ultimately untransfigured story.
It reads...as if its author were inventing the novel from scratch ... Ought to make for a miserable reading experience, but instead it’s strangely propulsive. DeWitt’s prose in Your Name Here deliberately eschews the beauty of her previous works: it’s plain, full of abbreviations and German loanwords and in-jokes.
