Artwork by Bradley Richards (2026) Tom Crewe (b.1989) is novelist and contributing editor for the LRB. I first came across Crewe’s work via his short story ‘The Room Service-Waiter’, featured in Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists 2023’, which stood out among that talented cohort for its deftness of style and quiet poignancy. Crewe’s debut…