From Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
by Andrew/Sunfrog

A review of Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

Is a long-form creative writer from the anarchist tradition an anarchist novelist or an anarchist who writes novels? Is there such a thing as an anarchist tradition within fiction? I am not sure that these were the first questions swirling in my mind as I devoured Stay and Fight, the debut novel by Madeline ffitch.