"The porosity of aesthetic and social categories impregnate Objektophilia ... Susan Finlay walks through the many encounters with objects that populate our lives with humour, or cruelty." Camille Henrot, Mousse Magazine
"Susan Finlay's deft, subtle novel examines the psychic texture of life through our relation to things... Objects of all kinds, from Filet-O-Fish sandwiches to high art, Le Creuset cookware, bicycle baskets and purpose-built, modern flats. Objektophilia is witty and brisk and devastating all at the same time." Chris Kraus
"I love how it sees space, almost as a medium for objects to appear. There is a narrative, but it really does seem to exist as a way to “exhibit” these objects. It’s fascinating." Amina Cain, The Paris Review
"A work of great richness and pleasure, as well as corresponding weariness and sarcasm ... A lush exhibitor of objects ... A beautiful reversal of all those novels whose fictional elements exist solely to advance the plot." Times Literary Supplement
"Susan Finlay’s funny, bleak and sharply observed novel immerses us in the obsessive preoccupation with objects—artworks, buildings, fast food, luxury goods, ‘niche’ design—that besets those who make a living from the culture industry... Part erotic fixation, part cultural disease." Art Review
