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In 2016’s The Mandibles, she created a character whom she described as a “pure piss-take” of herself: belligerent, tactless, a maniacal exerciser–the Ur-Boomer, utterly self-absorbed and an unalloyed financial disaster for society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

"Mandibles are like teeth but not only used to chew," Miner said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

In The Mandibles, I have one secondary character, Luella, who’s black.

From Time • Sep. 14, 2016

This is the world according to “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047,” Lionel Shriver’s new novel, her twelfth.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 30, 2016

Male of Ibla Cumingii, Mandibles, with the underlying articulated membrane, forming the side of the mouth.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles