He neither rushes a story to its high notes nor drags the pace so that we can admire his voice. In a band of writers, he’d be the drummer who sticks to a steady moderato. In contrast, Taylor presents such earnest moments of vulnerability in Anne of Cleves that my breath hitched … Some writers have the gift of perfect pitch when writing dialogue Taylor’s gift is perfect tempo. “Taylor plays the Lionel-Charles-Sophie storyline for all its awkwardness and resentment, but it can feel like a note held too long to suspend commitment, which is the resolution we’re trained to expect … The violence is neither glamorous nor gratuitous it is senseless without being pointless. Read an interview with Brandon Taylor here
–Deborah Eisenberg ( New York Review of Books)
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