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Ply by Hernan Diaz review – Pulitzer winner’s dry vision of far-future America

There are shades of JG Ballard in this tale of survival in a decaying metropolis, but big ideas and lengthy exposition crowd out the human drama

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14

Fall books: Fiction takes the spotlight in bookstores during the midterm season

Election news will likely fill the headlines this fall, but among book buyers fiction will likely have top billing

The Independent UK · Aug 21

Carnegie Foundation unveils 2026's 'Great Immigrants, Great Americans' list

The Andrew Carnegie Foundation has announced this year’s “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” honorees, including Citi CEO Jane Fraser and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Cristina Rivera Garza

The Independent UK · Jun 30

Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz share fiction Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York

The Independent UK · May 8, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Trust by Hernan Diaz and The Last Gift Of The Master Artists by Ben Okri.

The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2022

Trust by Hernan Diaz review – playful portrait of a Gatsby-like tycoon

When did wealth become the defining element of American success? This Booker-longlisted novel is a multilayered interrogation of ‘the fiction of money’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022

Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87 announced

List comprises 13 writers of fiction, from NoViolet Bulawayo to Leila Mottley, described as ‘stimulating, surprising, nourishing’ by judging panel

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2022

Trust by Hernan Diaz review – unreliable tales of a Manhattan mogul

A collection of four books in one about a Wall Street businessman in the 1920s captures our weakness for self-deception

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2022

You can't 'Trust' this novel. And that's a very good thing

Hernan Diaz's novel is constantly pulling a fast one on the reader. It opens with the saga of a Wall Street tycoon, but soon another narrative comes to upend the truth of everything that came before.

WEKU · May 12, 2022

Review: 'Trust,' by Hernan Diaz

FICTION: In his engrossing second novel, Hernan Diaz gives us four versions of the life of an early capitalist.

Tribune News Service · May 4, 2022