In this WIRED interview with Katie Drummond, Emily St. John Mandel discusses how the current political climate in America informed the speculative catastrophe in her latest novel, Exit Party (Knopf, 2026), and shares how she connects her novels in what the New Yorker calls the “Mandel Cinematic Universe.”
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