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A Little Death
Exploring the inarticulate violence of a broken heart.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Emojis, Comics, and the Novel of the Future
Only by being willing to adapt can the novel live up to the promise of its name. Xu Bing’s "Book from the Ground: From Point to Point" is just that.
Jerry Stahl Talks to Eric Bogosian, and It’s a Little Dark
Stahl and Bogosian discuss theater, art, punk, literature, film, life, and being artists in a materialistic world.
It’s Always a Surprise: A Conversation with Allison Amend and Others
Allison Amend answers questions from Hemingway, Woolf, Carver, Doctorow, Plimpton, and Peschel.
Memory and Place: A Conversation with Saikat Majumdar
A new novel by Saikat Majumdar and the question of what is cosmopolitan, what provincial …
The Intimate World of Edmund White
The latest from America’s fabulist of post-Stonewall gay life documents an increasingly narrow vision of a queer world.
Miracles and Fictions
With over 80 titles, César Aira now explores the adventures of a saint who's performed over 80 miracles.
Paradise Lost: On (Finally) Reading John Updike
After avoiding Updike her whole life due to his misogynist reputation, Meghan O'Gieblyn reads and reflects on Couples.
The Gothic Dramarama: On the 200th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë
A Conversation with Carolina De Robertis on Immigration, Sexuality, and the True Origins of the Tango
Carolina de Robertis is a Uruguayan-American author and has written three internationally best-selling novels — all set in the Río de la Plata region.
A “Loneliness Called Los Angeles”: The Destiny of an Iranian-Jewish Family
"The Girl From the Garden" by Parnaz Foroutan interweaves concerns with patriarchy, fertility, and fate in early 20th-century Iran.
Fat Girl as Humanized Disaster
Mona Awad’s debut collection adds new depth to the fat girl in literature with this disastrous, so-sad-it’s-maybe-funny narrator.
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