Tomiwa Owolade

A feast for geeks: The Making of Incarnation, by Tom McCarthy, reviewed

McCarthy’s latest novel involves physics and copyright law among much else. But the cleverness has left no room for characterisation

Tom McCarthy. Credit: Alamy.

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