What Gets in Our Way: On Nathan Hill’s The Nix

This review could spoil your reading of Nathan Hill’s novel The Nix, not because I plan to tell you it’s not a good read—in fact, The Nix is a great read, of the variety of great reads that draws you in slowly, patiently, with stores of writerly restraint and pertinacious plotting for a few hundred pages, each chapter and section coming to a close just as you (and the detective-like protagonist Samuel Andresen-Anderson) want to know more, until around page 350 anyway, when the