"A creepily prescient tale in which anonymous mobs target artists and destroy their art for the crime of individual vision. Insidiously horrifying!" --Margaret Atwood "The fourth book by the trailblazing queer English writer, editor and publisher Kay Dick . spare, troubling, eerily familiar. It evokes Yoko Ogawa's Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales or Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men , occupying a space between dystopia and horror." --Carmen Maria Machado , The Guardian "Queer, English, a masterpiece." --Hilton Als " They is dark, but the light never quite goes out . The book is supple with dread . And a great part of the rediscovery is the figure of Dick herself: a fully formed narrator, bowed and unbowed, monocle intact, who has weathered the storm already.

" --Sam Knight, The New Yorker "Both a dystopian fable and a stealth memoir . Like all robust allegories, They grants the reader the freedom to imagine any number of vivid referents for the opaque." --Melissa Anderson, Bookforum "Dick's lush, transcendent nature writing contrasts with her spare, elliptical dialogue . [it's] a cri de coeur against urbanization . They is a study of fear. Its disconcerting power lies in its dream logic and elisions--the unexplained background, the offstage violence." --Madeleine Feeny, The Spectator "[A] stunningly effective dystopian nightmare . Could there be amore fitting moment for the revival of Dick's uneasy little masterpiecethan our own era of isolation, fractious culture wars, wideningintolerance, and environmental decline?" --David Wright, Library Journal , Starred Review "A tension of glinting malice pervades the narrator's episodic travels .

here is a liberatory current of queer and nonmonogamous love anddesire running counter to the increasingly stifling oppression enactedon the populace . Dick's dreamlike rendering of virulent conformityand a quotidian bloodthirsty anti-intellectualism still resonate. Atimely reissue of English author Dick's slim dystopian fever dream." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] disquieting, lean, pared-back dystopian tale . One element thatmakes the book especially disturbing is that "they," whoever they are,are not a government-sanctioned group like Bradbury's firemen orOrwell's all-pervading government surveillance, but rather anunsanctioned multitude, the strength of which appears to lie not inofficial mandates, but rather in the swell of their ever-increasingnumbers . It's chilling, but compellingly so." --Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review "Eerie, atmospheric . The faceless nature of the antagonists--whosephilosophy, goals, and power structures are unspoken--runs counter toother mid-century dystopian tales and leaves space for interpretation .

Dick creates a pervasive sense of dread for those who give theirlives to art. This unsettling dreamlike endeavor is a worthyrediscovery." -- Publishers Weekly "Kay Dick's mind is a delicate instrument, aware, sensitive,intelligent, alive to every shade of feeling and sensation." --L. P. Hartley, Sunday Times "Strong stuff, beautifully written, to make a man look behind him infear and dread when walking down a leafy lane." --Philip Howard, The Times.