Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – ramshackle wanderers in Berlin Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails off The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025
On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2025
Avalon by Nell Zink – mad about the mansplainer The author of The Wallcreeper delivers her most sincere novel yet in this hilarious and absorbing tale of a teenager’s search for love The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2023
Avalon by Nell Zink review – the misfit’s tale A young woman journeys from criminal family to the artistic precariat, in the latest novel from one of America’s most exciting writers The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2023
Nell Zink: ‘Guys who like Kafka are insufferable’ The American novelist on being from the wrong side of the tracks, quitting Twitter and the dangers of studying philosophy The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2022
Nell Zink talks about Southern California novel ‘Avalon’ and success after years of hard, unrewarding work As “Avalon” opens, Bran, the young woman at the heart of Nell Zink’s coming-of-age story, sprawls on a grassy Southern California hillside and imagines that the “smear of moonlight” before her leads to Avalon. The Orange County Register · Jun 29, 2022
Review: 'Avalon,' by Nell Zink FICTION: Nell Zink's sixth novel in seven years is about a woman's rise from dire beginnings. Tribune News Service · May 25, 2022