Fiction

Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future

Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future

Her debut novel, The New Wilderness, examines the dynamics between parent and child in a world beset by the bleakest of environmental scenarios.

Nov 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Zack Graham

Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures

Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures

A conversation with the acclaimed sci-fi novelist about the climate crisis, activism, utopia, and his new novel, The Ministry for the Future.

Nov 17, 2020 / Q&A / Lewis Gordon

When Raving Was Radical

When Raving Was Radical When Raving Was Radical

Rainald Goetz’s 1998 novel captures both the complicated politics of the German electronic music scene and the chaotic experience of a night lost to dancing.

Nov 5, 2020 / Rachel Hahn

Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller

Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller

Hari Kunzru’s ambitious new novel Red Pill plumbs the depth of right-wing and liberal ideas as it tracks one man’s descent into a web-induced mania. 

Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano

Yaa Gyasi’s Family Chronicle

Yaa Gyasi’s Family Chronicle Yaa Gyasi’s Family Chronicle

At the center of Gyasi's new novel are the unspoken bonds and tensions between mothers and daughters.

Oct 6, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Lovia Gyarkye

Re-Education Camp

Re-Education Camp Re-Education Camp

Trump proposes white-washing American history.

Sep 29, 2020 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

The Inner Lives of the Accused in Emma Cline’s ‘Daddy’

The Inner Lives of the Accused in Emma Cline’s ‘Daddy’ The Inner Lives of the Accused in Emma Cline’s ‘Daddy’

Her new story collection is of apiece with the writer’s interest in the minds of the guilty, the complicit, and the canceled.

Sep 15, 2020 / Lizzy Harding

Ayad Akhtar, Shahzia Sikander

The Incantatory Power of Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander The Incantatory Power of Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander

The two artistic geniuses—a novelist and a visual artist—discuss US politics, Islamophobia, and their recent work.

Sep 15, 2020 / Q&A / Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander

C Pam Zhang’s Radical Retelling of Western Myths

C Pam Zhang’s Radical Retelling of Western Myths C Pam Zhang’s Radical Retelling of Western Myths

Her novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold follows two Chinese American siblings’ quest to find home amidst the prejudice and danger of the frontier. 

Sep 8, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham

Is This the First Great Quarantine Novel?

Is This the First Great Quarantine Novel? Is This the First Great Quarantine Novel?

Alice Knott tells the story of a housebound heiress going slowly mad from a combination of 24-hour news and isolation.

Sep 2, 2020 / Brooks Sterritt

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