11/23/2025
Available now from Tivoli Books: Randall by Jonathan Gibbs.
Originally published in Britain, Jonathan Gibbs’ Randall is quite simply one of the shrewdest and most outrageous art-world novels in the English language. The eponymous artist at the book’s center is a provocateur, a manipulator and a vandal—but also quite possibly a genius. Seen through the eyes of Vincent, his finance bro friend, admirer and rival in love, Randall is an artist for whom art is less an aesthetic challenge than a marketing problem, an act of aggression and a spoof (if also a consuming passion). Readers will be fascinated and appalled, but also faced with profound questions about art, commerce, and our debts to one another. As Vincent eventually discovers after his friend’s death, there is a lot more to Randall than showmanship, and a lot more to his art than the funhouse mirror he holds up to the vanities around him. British reviewers raved. Now Americans can see what all the fuss was about.
