The Terrifying Truth in Jeffrey Lewis’s Novel on Nuclear War
Melissa Chan considers "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States."...
Fiction About Fiction
A new novel portrays writerly agony in a haze of indecision and pot smoke....
The Storytelling Sorcery of Super Short Fiction in “New Micro”
Lauren Kinney swims through the collection “New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction.”...
The Form of the Small Life: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle: Book Six”
Paul Delany reviews the final book of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle" series....
Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library of America
An essential writer in his quintessential decade....
All the Thrills Without the Terror: On “Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays about Translation”
Veronica Scott Esposito interprets “Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays about Translation,” edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz....
On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace
"Why does Wallace read differently to me now? Why am I ashamed of him? Maybe his work is limited in ways I didn’t see before."...
Peter Stamm, Master of Emptiness
GD Dess probes the meaning of emptiness in the novels of Peter Stamm....
Suffering Visible: The Ravages of Postcolonial Capitalism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s “This Mournable Body”
In her sly, layered novel “This Mournable Body,” Tsitsi Dangarembga forces the reader’s perspective toward both violence and its humane alternatives....
Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on “A River of Stars”
Melody Schreiber talks toe Vanessa Hua about her debut novel, "A River of Stars."...
Alive in a Magic Democracy: On “The Real Lolita”
Francesca Capossela puts “The Real Lolita” by Sarah Weinman in dialogue with “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov....
The Dust on a Butterfly’s Wing: On Sarah Weinman’s Investigation of “The Real Lolita”
Désirée Zamorano reviews “The Real Lolita” by Sarah Weinman....
