Your Name Here

Your Name Here

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By Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff

ISBN: 9781628976267

Publication Date: 09/23/2025

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt, and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.

In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff present a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books, weaving together material as diverse as America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, Scientology, dream analysis, linguistics, email correspondence, screenshots, and graphs into a novel of unparalleled scope and vision. 

Through a metafictional sleight of hand reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman‘s Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself.

Reviews

“An ouroboros—and a big one at that—of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment… At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.” Kirkus Reviews

“Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organized: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great ‘Biz’ made up of millions of little bizzes… Your Name Here is a novel that doesn’t really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, disheveled and dissolute; globalized and pornified and digitized somehow, bit after bit after bit.” The London Review of Books

“Peerless.” —Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts

“An important and complicated work of art.” —n+1

Biographical Information

Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai, which has been named one of the best books of the 21st century by multiple publications. She is also the author of Lightning Rods, as well as a collection of short stories, Some Trick, and a novella, The English Understand Wool. She lives in Berlin.

Ilya Gridneff is a Toronto-based journalist working for the Financial Times. Over the years he has written articles for the Baffler, Vice, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and Foreign Policy. He has lived and worked in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, London and Berlin.