Filthy Animals

"As we head into the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, Brandon Taylor’s collection of short stories, Filthy Animals unfolds like a season of prestige television – a warm potluck of human messiness. It’s actually at a potluck that we meet the three characters whose messy love triangle is the fulcrum around which the stories turn. Taylor’s prose is gorgeous, his stories are sharp and beautiful, and they collect to form an extraordinary portrait of what it means to be overwhelmed, which in 2021 is also what it means to be human."