“LOTE delights in satirizing contemporary arts culture and carving out a Black, queer perspective. Witty, gorgeous, and at times Gothic, it questions the lines between fantasy and obsession—and the boundaries of escapism.”
—Rebecca Peng, NUVO
“The novel is underpinned by a question: Why are so few queer Black British modernists documented in those flourishing interwar years? Through an impressive mix of scholarship and historical fiction, Reinhold sets out to unravel and challenge this history, prying open the ledgers to ask how and why the received archive is so overwhelmingly white.”
—Izabella Scott, The White Review
“LOTE is a magical, revolutionary piece of writing.”
—Skye Arundhati Thomas, Frieze
“Though von Reinhold fictionalizes history, the book begs the question: who has yet to be unearthed? What is the real meaning of a canon, if there are so many hidden ones? Readers will find real joy in von Reinhold’s creation of what reads as a joyous Black artistic queer community.”
—Sruti Islam, Montreal Review of Books
“Shola von Reinhold’s debut novel, LOTE, takes the reader on a fabulously queer, decadent, decolonial, and complex journey…”
—Isabelle Coy-Dibley, The Modernist Review
“What does it mean to daydream about a past that would not be hospitable to you? Shola von Reinhold’s debut novel, LOTE, dramatizes this question by bringing complex literary-ethical crises and frothy champagne into the archive.”
—Ana Quiring, Full Stop
Author: Shola von Reinhold
Cover illustration by Leo Robinson
Cover design by Sultana Bambino
