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Jackson Ayres

Jackson Ayres

Jackson Ayres is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues. He is completing a book, “Alan Moore: A Critical Guide,” for Bloomsbury’s Comics Studies Series. icon

Whose England? Whose Brexit?

By Jackson Ayres

A subplot running through Jonathan Coe’s most recent novel, Middle England, involves a feud between two garish children’s clowns that culminates in a ...

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