Posted on 7 November 2017
Kelly, who teaches, researches and writes about American fiction, argues that Saunders' novel does something genuinely startling, disrupting what we have come to expect from a historical novel, and placing the work of scholars and researchers centre stage.
Though Saunders could not have known just how relevant his novel was going to be, Kelly makes the case that this is very much a book for our times. Read Kelly's essay on Lincoln in the Bardo at The Conversation.