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A river? A prison? Money? Jennifer Egan says time's a goon in her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad. Our times seem particularly trying, what with economic and political turmoil and major transformations to the very way we define ourselves. Egan's novel, Peter Mountford's debut A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, and Lawrence Douglas's The Vices take in the recent past as well as the near future, and span Europe, the US, and South America as they reflect on our world. Moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of The Drum.