Undifferentiated Slime: Jane DeLynn’s ‘In Thrall’
Malin Hay, 10 July 2025
Jane DeLynn last published a novel in 2002, when she was 56, but Semiotext(e) in the US and Divided in the UK have now reissued In Thrall (1982), her most personal work and, according to Colm Tóibín’s new introduction, ‘her masterpiece’. It’s set in the mid-1960s at a girls’ high school in Manhattan. Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks...