Brandon Taylor’s Potlucks and Parties Brandon Taylor’s Potlucks and Parties
In his new collection of short stories, the Booker-Prize nominated novelist explores the desires and discontents of people living in small university towns.
Jul 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’ ‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Jun 30, 2021 / Q&A / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Diane Johnson’s Homecoming Diane Johnson’s Homecoming
In her new novel, the novelist returns to the United States to offer a self-conscious story of American fragmentation.
Jun 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
The Epic Misery of Thomas Bernhard The Epic Misery of Thomas Bernhard
His little-known novel The Cheap-Eaters, recently translated by Douglas Robertson, puts forward a basic thesis: Life is a sequence of crushings.
Jun 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Missouri Williams
The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality
A conversation with Richard Jean So about combining data and literary analysis to understand how the publishing industry came to be dominated by white writers.
May 27, 2021 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho
Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Drive Richard Wright Underground? Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Drive Richard Wright Underground?
On “Memories of My Grandmother” and The Man Who Lived Underground.
May 20, 2021 / Joseph G. Ramsey
A Portrait of Cis-Trans Solidarity A Portrait of Cis-Trans Solidarity
Torrey Peters’s novel Detransition, Baby reimagines what we call the family.
May 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Lewis
The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer
Kavita Bedford’s novel Friends and Dark Shapes explores the false promises and precarity of writing in the age of the gig economy.
May 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Lily Meyer
A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021 A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021
Three views of a Texas giant.
May 7, 2021 / Feature / Benjamin Moser
Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf
Like most women who write, I live my life according to the firmly stated judgments of literary men.
May 6, 2021 / Alyssa Harad