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June 26, 2017
Percival Everett’s Abstract Art
His new novel, So Much Blue, is a meditation on seeing and abstraction, and it might be key for recognizing a new form of literary social critique.
Paul Devlin
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June 19, 2017
Mary Gaitskill Remains Open to Opposition
The closest thing we get to a precept in Somebody with a Little Hammer is that we should all try to learn to think for ourselves—and, even then, things can go wrong.
Larissa Pham
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April 14, 2017
Hwang Jungeun’s Noisy, Crowded Space
The novel One Hundred Shadows achieves dense social meaning with spare prose.
E. Tammy Kim
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March 20, 2017
Caught Between Modernity and Tradition
With sympathy and ruthlessness, U.R. Ananthamurthy’s novel Samskara gives shape to the mutinies that raged within mid-century India.
Ratik Asokan
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March 17, 2017
The Model of Perfection in Morgan Parker’s Poems
The poet allows the struggles and the messiness of life—with a particular focus on black womanhood—to breathe.
Christopher Soto
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March 16, 2017
Sarah Manguso’s Existential Aphorisms
In 300 Arguments, the author’s rejection of the conventions of storytelling helps reinforce the sense of her own smallness.
Michele Moses
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February 14, 2017
Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home
The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.
Hannah K. Gold
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December 30, 2016
A Catalog of Cadavers
Claudia Salazar Jiménez sets out to conjure the experience of atrocity in Peru with her debut novel, Blood of the Dawn. The result is disquieting—though not in the way you’d expect.
Ratik Asokan
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December 1, 2016
Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue
Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited… Bentham’s revenge…
Our Readers and Samuel Moyn
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November 19, 2016
The Personal Is Political, But Not Always Fictional
What is the novelist Intizar Husain’s theory of Pakistani history?
Ratik Asokan