Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence, Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, London Review of Books, the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, frieze and Artforum. He has curated exhibitions for Tate and Hayward galleries. He lives in London.

‘Brian Dillon’s fascinating bildungsroman Ambivalence tells the story of a mind making itself up, hanging, deleting, willfully transforming itself. Every book every friendship, every conversation mark our anti-hero B, who feels compelled to create himself, while the eponymous title assures me he is aware of failure, the frailties of the intellectual life, and how knowing is also always unknowing and unlearning. His resistance, disillusions and embraces create a completely engaging world in which grows an amazing virtual library of necessary readings and investigations. This reader trusts people who doubt themselves and their ideas, and Ambivalence honours a productive and essential trust between writer and reader. This is an exceptional work.’ — Lynne Tillman, author of Weird Fucks

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence, Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, London Review of Books, the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, frieze and Artforum. He has curated exhibitions for Tate and Hayward galleries. He lives in London.

‘Brian Dillon’s fascinating bildungsroman Ambivalence tells the story of a mind making itself up, hanging, deleting, willfully transforming itself. Every book every friendship, every conversation mark our anti-hero B, who feels compelled to create himself, while the eponymous title assures me he is aware of failure, the frailties of the intellectual life, and how knowing is also always unknowing and unlearning. His resistance, disillusions and embraces create a completely engaging world in which grows an amazing virtual library of necessary readings and investigations. This reader trusts people who doubt themselves and their ideas, and Ambivalence honours a productive and essential trust between writer and reader. This is an exceptional work.’ — Lynne Tillman, author of Weird Fucks

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence, Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, London Review of Books, the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, frieze and Artforum. He has curated exhibitions for Tate and Hayward galleries. He lives in London.

‘Brian Dillon’s fascinating bildungsroman Ambivalence tells the story of a mind making itself up, hanging, deleting, willfully transforming itself. Every book every friendship, every conversation mark our anti-hero B, who feels compelled to create himself, while the eponymous title assures me he is aware of failure, the frailties of the intellectual life, and how knowing is also always unknowing and unlearning. His resistance, disillusions and embraces create a completely engaging world in which grows an amazing virtual library of necessary readings and investigations. This reader trusts people who doubt themselves and their ideas, and Ambivalence honours a productive and essential trust between writer and reader. This is an exceptional work.’ — Lynne Tillman, author of Weird Fucks