'Buckley has once again staged an absorbing debate: a philosophical refusal of narrative linearity that is replete with stories; a constellation of episodes that does not tell the whole tale.'
-- Richard Robinson, Guardian (praise for Tell)

'Tell is one of the best new novels I've read in a while.'
-- Benjamin Markovits, Telegraph (praise for Tell)

'Given that so many of Buckley's novels are concerned with ideas of memory, selfhood and storytelling, this is hardly new territory for him. Yet the interview conceit in Tell makes it feel fresh, the withholding of interiority requiring an unusual engagement. Don't take the conversational prose at face value; underneath it lies a whole other set of mysteries besides Curtis's. Pay attention and you'll find them.'
-- George Cochrane, Financial Times (praise for Tell)

'Always well crafted, this novel is engaging in parts and digressive in others, which adds to its realism, capturing how people chatter their way down alleys, rarely hewing to the main road of a tale.... The buildup in Tell is perpetual, a sense that an explanation must be coming. But the author diverges from expectations and converges on reality, where remembering is not the same as understanding. Abruptly, someone may just disappear, and all that remains is the sight of a figure wandering across a bridge -- no splash heard, just the fading ripples of "why."'
-- Tom Rachman, New York Times (praise for Tell)