
Ben Lerner’s Transcription Is a Brilliant Meditation on Tech
Transcription, Ben Lerner’s slim but layered new novel, is a penetrating meditation on fraudulence, fatherhood, and the fate of authentic experience in our digital age.
Katie Tobin is an arts writer based in London whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Frieze, MUBI Notebook, the Times Literary Supplement, and many more. She is completing a PhD at Durham University.

Transcription, Ben Lerner’s slim but layered new novel, is a penetrating meditation on fraudulence, fatherhood, and the fate of authentic experience in our digital age.