Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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  Desperate Efficiency

  Bruce Holsinger discusses AI ethics, collective accountability, and his newest novel.

  Tess PollokMar 19

  • Fiction

  • Science & Technology

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  Ladies Who Still Lunch

  The new posthumous gathering of Lore Segal’s final stories is a wise and funny tribute to the power of friendship.

  Na’amit Sturm NagelMar 17

  • Fiction

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  Empty Hiss

  The short story form is an uneasy vessel for Helen Garner’s particular intensity.

  Max CallimanopulosMar 16

  • Fiction

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  Longing for Moor

  Emerald Fennell’s sexed-up take on Emily Brontë’s gothic romance feels empty.

  Eric NewmanMar 14

  • Film

  • Fiction

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  Mad Ones with Trust Funds

  Andrew Martin’s new novel is a chronicle of the overeducated and underachieving stumbling through a post-pandemic haze.

  Adam StrausMar 10

  • Fiction

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  Elliptical Selfhood

  Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.

  Tess PollokMar 9

  • Fiction

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  What Lies Beyond and Beneath

  Nadia Davids discusses the ‘thin places’ between life and death in her new novel ‘Cape Fever.’

  Katya ApekinaMar 7

  • Fiction

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  Moving Through the World with Eyes Open

  In her latest short story collection, Ayşegül Savaş considers lives lived apart.

  Angelica HankinsMar 5

  • Fiction

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  Let Down by Understatement

  Scott Broker’s debut novel is like ‘Scenes from a (Gay) Marriage’ with undertones of Stephen King.

  Gideon LeekMar 3

  • Fiction

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  Sex in the City: Istanbul 1923

  A cheerful collection of Turkish erotica, translated by Burcu Karahan, offers insights into early 20th-century sexuality in Istanbul.

  Kaya GençFeb 17

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Fiction

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  Until the Next Grave Is Dug

  On Urszula Honek’s bleak debut story collection, the Booker long-listed ‘White Nights,’ newly translated by Kate Webster.

  Cory OldweilerFeb 10

  • Fiction

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  What Comes First, the House or the Haunting?

  ‘Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora,’ a new anthology edited by Kristy Park Kulski, uses storytelling to demonstrate why ‘the ghosts of our futures cannot just be entities that lurk in the background.’

  Jered MabaquiaoFeb 7

  • Fiction

  • Cultural Studies