Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose books are often structured around repetition, recess, and delay, and reject linear models of time in order to explore the looping, jarring, out-of-sync temporalities that color late modernity. His first novel Remainder sees the victim of an unspecified technological disaster use his compensation funds to stage elaborate reenactments of half-remembered scenes from his own past. His latest novel The Making of Incarnation (2021) is an unpacking of the history of time-and-motion study. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Born in Scotland, he is now a Swedish citizen and lives in Berlin.
Tom McCarthy
