Dimensions of a Cave - Paperback

by Greg Jackson (Author)

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker

A virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption, by an electrifying debut novelist.

When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones's story about covert military interrogation practices is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper and unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation.

As the shadowy labyrinths of governmental corruption unfurl and tighten around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce--who, like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz, disappeared into the war several years earlier--keep emerging.

Greg Jackson's The Dimensions of a Cave explores our drive toward war, violence, and venality, placing humanity and idealism under the spotlight.

Author Biography

Greg Jackson is the author of the story collection Prodigals, for which he was named a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" honoree and received the Bard Fiction Prize. In 2017 he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His fiction and essays have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays and have appeared in many publications. The Dimensions of a Cave is his first novel.