Rediscovering Nelson Algren Rediscovering Nelson Algren
The literary giant’s unique resonance in our anti-capitalist moment.
Mar 19, 2019 / Dan Simon
Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Novel About Everything Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Novel About Everything
The Spanish writer’s sprawling Nocilla trilogy is a contemporary epic.
Mar 14, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Loudis
Hunting for Lions and Liberation Hunting for Lions and Liberation
Rachel Ingalls’s 1983 novel Binstead’s Safari is a fable-like account of the price of feminism and the freedom from domesticity.
Mar 13, 2019 / Maya Binyam
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel Meets the Trump Presidency (Aboard a Giant Zeppelin) The Post-Apocalyptic Novel Meets the Trump Presidency (Aboard a Giant Zeppelin)
Mark Doten’s masterful satiric novel Trump Sky Alpha imagines how a world without the internet pushed Trump to doomsday measures.
Mar 6, 2019 / Lisa Borst
Darius James’s Antic Satire of American Racism Darius James’s Antic Satire of American Racism
Provocative and slapstick, his 1992 debut, Negrophobia: An Urban Parable, dives into the frenzied subconscious of white prejudice.
Feb 28, 2019 / Nawal Arjini
The Claustrophobic World of Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’ The Claustrophobic World of Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’
Her Man Booker–winning novel offers a haunting look at daily life during The Troubles.
Feb 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Letters From the March 11-28, 2019, Issue Letters From the March 11-28, 2019, Issue
Laughing Through the Pain Thank you for the good laugh you gave me with the title of John Nichols’s article, “Trump at Two” [Feb. 11/18]. I had to pause to ask myself whether the p…
Feb 21, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers
Tana French’s Crime-Fiction Masterpiece Tana French’s Crime-Fiction Masterpiece
The Witch Elm is a triumph of the genre.
Feb 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / J. Robert Lennon
Wellness Is Always a Scam Wellness Is Always a Scam
Sam Lipsyte’s novel Hark is a righteous send-up of self-help gobbledegook and the mindfulness industry.
Feb 15, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
The Myth of Nationalism Is the Scariest Thing of All The Myth of Nationalism Is the Scariest Thing of All
Sarah Moss’s haunting new novel Ghost Wall looks at the evil that lurks behind the stories we tell ourselves about borders and ancestral origins.
Feb 13, 2019 / Emma Hager