On this edition of the UK Desk for Arts Express, I take a close look at New Flesh, the debut novel by Adam Jones—a brutal, stylish piece of speculative fiction that fuses body horror with bureaucratic dread. Think Cronenberg meets Kafka, shot through with a very British kind of collapse. I dig into how the book speaks to our current moment: digital numbness, institutional violence, and the way desire gets twisted by systems meant to control us. It’s grotesque, sharp, and hard to look away from—just like the world it reflects.
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