The Worlds of Kathleen Collins The Worlds of Kathleen Collins
The quiet brilliance of her films and fiction was found in her ability to to place the interior and subjective in the context of the social and political.
Jul 15, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Namwali Serpell’s Postcolonial Epic Namwali Serpell’s Postcolonial Epic
The Old Drift tells the multigenerational story of Zambia coming into being.
Jul 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Nawal Arjini
Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation
The newly reissued 1964 book is a hallucinatory mix of crime fiction, vaudeville, and modernist experimentation.
Jun 26, 2019 / Shane Anderson
‘The Farm’ Looks at a Future Where Pregnancy Is Outsourced to the Poor ‘The Farm’ Looks at a Future Where Pregnancy Is Outsourced to the Poor
In Joanne Ramos’s debut novel about a venture-capitalist funded surrogacy clinic, class war begins in the womb.
Jun 19, 2019 / Noah Flora
Ingeborg Bachmann’s Experimental Gem ‘Malina’ Is a Novel Like None Other Ingeborg Bachmann’s Experimental Gem ‘Malina’ Is a Novel Like None Other
The Austrian writer’s 1971 book is one of the most potent renderings of female consciousness European literature has produced.
Jun 18, 2019 / Dustin Illingworth
Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry
Ives’ second novel, Loudermilk, lampoons MFA writing programs and the inherited wealth that props them up.
Jun 12, 2019 / Charlie Markbreiter
A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder
Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is unlike any border story you’ve read before.
Jun 10, 2019 / Joshua Rivera
In Elvia Wilk’s ‘Oval,’ Berlin Is Where the Late Capitalist Apocalypse Finally Happens In Elvia Wilk’s ‘Oval,’ Berlin Is Where the Late Capitalist Apocalypse Finally Happens
Her debut novel is a cutting satire of a future in which corporate doublespeak, art-world pedants, and climate change threaten to undo the German capital.
Jun 4, 2019 / Alex Ronan
Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’ Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’
Nathan Englander's third novel tries to satirize unthinking religiosity, lazy secularism, and the nascent gig economy—but fails to impress.
May 22, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking
When we read a book like America Is in the Heart, we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.
May 1, 2019 / Elaine Castillo