Contested ground
Apr 10, 2022
2 minutes
by JOSIE SHAPIRO
THE COLONY, by Audrey Magee (Faber, $32.99)
The atmospheric second novel from Irish writer Audrey Magee makes clear its preoccupations in the title Set over one summer on a small island off the coast of Ireland – only three miles long, half a mile wide, with fewer than 100 inhabitants – this novel breaks down ideas about savage
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