The Blinding Clarity of John Le Carré The Blinding Clarity of John Le Carré
His novels of imperial decline speak to a world that has remained at war since his youth.
Dec 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Susan Taubes’s ‘Divorcing’ Asks: How Far Can the Novel Take You? Susan Taubes’s ‘Divorcing’ Asks: How Far Can the Novel Take You?
The sole book she released during her life was a work of ahead of its time in terms of style, irreverence, and experimentation.
Dec 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard
Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’ Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’
A conversation about writing emphatically about marginalized communities, Houston’s diversity of cuisines and peoples, Japanese literature, and more.
Nov 25, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
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
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 / Editorial / Lewis Gordon
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 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
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
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’
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