Flat Earth
'This novel will soon be in the hands of cool girls everywhere' The Times
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:6th Nov '25
Should be back in stock very soon

*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.
A compulsively readable portrait of our times -- Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun
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 * Guardian *
Strangely hypnotic ... crisp, pitiless prose -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times *
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 -- Nicole Flattery, author of Show Them a Good Time
Not to be missed if you want to keep up with the literary zeitgeist * GQ *
Clever, cool and current -- Sara Lawrence * Daily Mail *
Brilliant, sardonic, utterly original ... destined to become a cult classic * Kirkus *
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 -- Adelaide Faith, author of Happiness Forever
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 -- Justin Taylor, author of Reboot
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 -- Megan Nolan
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
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 * The Times *
Witty and poignant ... funny and sharp ... beautiful -- New York Times Book Review
Slim but beautiful. You'll want to carry Flat Earth around like a prayer book * LA Review of Books *
Charged with a gleeful apocalyptic energy ... a briskly enjoyable generational portrait * Irish Examiner *
Wild, witty ... roaringly contemporary -- Books of the Year * New Statesman *
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 * Irish Times *
ISBN: 9780349148090
Dimensions: 200mm x 124mm x 22mm
Weight: 300g
224 pages