The Hanya Yanagihara Principle

The novelist tends to torture her gay male characters — but only so she can swoop in to save them.

Hanya’s Boys The novelist tends to torture her gay male characters — but only so she can swoop in to save them. By Andrea Long Chu, Pulitzer-winning critic for New York and Vulture Photo: Amanda Demme Photo: Amanda Demme Photo: Amanda Demme This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By the time you finish reading A Little Life, you will have spent a whole book waiting for a man to kill himself. The novel, the second from author Hanya Yanagihara, begins as a light chronicle of male friendship among four…

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