
Jenny Hval’s Queer Eden Jenny Hval’s Queer Eden
In her debut novel, Paradise Rot, the Norwegian musician plays with themes that run throughout her rewarding discography.
Nov 14, 2018 / Ann-Derrick Gaillot

Welcome to the Life-or-Death Escape Room Welcome to the Life-or-Death Escape Room
It’s called climate change, and we’re running out of time to solve it.
Nov 13, 2018 / John Feffer

Letters From the November 19-26, 2018, Issue Letters From the November 19-26, 2018, Issue
Fact in fiction… AOC prepares for DC… Performing patriarchy…
Oct 25, 2018 / Our Readers and Elias Rodriques

Sergio de la Pava’s Society-Spanning Fiction Sergio de la Pava’s Society-Spanning Fiction
His novels capture a world riven apart by class and brought back together by art.
Oct 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Frank Guan

Ottessa Moshfegh’s Contemporary Gothic Ottessa Moshfegh’s Contemporary Gothic
My Year of Rest and Relaxation offers a fever dream of New York’s millennial elite before the 2008 crash.
Oct 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Ismail Muhammad

Jason Lutes’s ‘Berlin’ Sets a New Standard for Graphic Novels Jason Lutes’s ‘Berlin’ Sets a New Standard for Graphic Novels
This expansive work follows a cast of characters caught up in the massive upheavals happening in Germany between the world wars.
Oct 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu

The Magic of Helen DeWitt The Magic of Helen DeWitt
In the world of Some Trick, the best words are so acute they lacerate.
Oct 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld

Who Owns Kafka? Who Owns Kafka?
The complicated legacy of the writer’s estate.
Oct 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction
Part sci-fi thriller, part genre-fiction, Severance follows a millennial New Yorker’s struggle to survive.
Oct 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham

Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free
In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty