Your Name Here

Helen DeWitt author Ilya Gridneff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Publishing:4th Dec '25

£18.99

This title is due to be published on 4th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Your Name Here cover

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.

A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, 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.

A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman‘s Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.

“An ouroboros—and a big one at that—of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment… At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.” Kirkus Reviews

“Peerless.” —Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts

“Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Your Name Here has been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last, Your Name Here is here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing—a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internet’s jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time, Your Name Here contains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!” —Mark Krotov, coeditor of n+1 and The Intellectual Situation

“Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organized: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great ‘Biz’ made up of millions of little bizzes… Your Name Here is a novel that doesn’t really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, disheveled and dissolute; globalized and pornified and digitized somehow, bit after bit after bit.” The London Review of Books

ISBN: 9781628976267

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

600 pages