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Zeal, Wit, and Fury: The Queer Black Modernism of Claude McKay
Gary Edward Holcomb considers the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”...
Literary Fiction
Fruit Without Taste: On Marguerite Duras’s “The Easy Life”
Apoorva Tadepalli reviews Marguerite Duras’s “The Easy Life.”...
Fuck the Poetry Police: On the Index of Major Literary Prizes in the United States
Dan Sinykin breaks down the Post45 Data Collective set on literary awards compiled by Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr....
Whatever Weapon: On Gender and Italian Literature
Janna Brancolini discusses the dynamic relationship between restrictive Italian gender roles, Italy’s biggest literary prize, and the nation's history of women writers, who have rarely won it....
Fettuccine and Forgiveness
Erica Heller on coming to forgive her novelist father, Joseph, for their “fractious, doomed, exhausting relationship.”...
Pushing Against the Self in Fiction: A Conversation with Akil Kumarasamy
Mona Kareem talks with Akil Kumarasamy about her new novel, “Meet Us by the Roaring Sea.”...
All of the Monsters (In Which I Accuse James Purdy of Throwing My Four-Year-Old Child Down Two Flights of Stairs Using His Powers of Telekinesis): On Michael Snyder’s “James Purdy”
Matthew Stadler recalls his friend James Purdy via Michael Snyder’s new biography of the novelist, playwright, and poet, “James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer.”...
A Romanian Daedalus’ Surrealist Labyrinth: On Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Solenoid”
Ben Hooyman reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Solenoid.”...
Did “Less” Need More?: On Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less Is Lost”
John Havard reviews Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel “Less Is Lost.”...
Possibly Related Characters: On Li Zi Shu’s “The Age of Goodbyes”
Jenny Wu reviews Li Zi Shu’s “The Age of Goodbyes,” translated by YZ Chin....
Beauty in Recluse: On Katherine Dunn’s “Toad”
Terry Nguyen reviews Katherine Dunn’s posthumously published novel “Toad.”...
Opposites Blur Together: On Dane Bahr’s “The Houseboat”
Jason Namey reviews Dane Bahr’s “The Houseboat,” a gothic noir about a detective investigating an outcast suspected of murder in 1960s Iowa....
Variations on a Theme: On Gwendoline Riley’s “First Love” and “My Phantoms”
Oona Holahan reviews Gwendoline Riley’s novels “First Love” and “My Phantoms.”...
A Leaky Manual on Living with Uncertainty: On Julia Armfield’s “Our Wives Under the Sea”
Zander Allport reviews Julia Armfield’s “Our Wives Under the Sea.”...
Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction
Richard Joseph ponders Donna Tartt’s curious exclusion from the “genre turn” canon....
Dickens for the Civil Rights–Era South: On Joseph Allen Boone’s “Furnace Creek”
Suzanne Keen reviews Joseph Allen Boone’s new novel “Furnace Creek.”...
“Summon the Shadows of Ages Past”: Negotiating The Northman’s Antimodernism
Wilson Taylor analyzes the superficial glorification of the premodern in Robert Eggers’s “The Northman.”...
“Books Want Things for Themselves”: A Conversation with Alice Elliott Dark
Mark Labowskie talks with Alice Elliott Dark about her new novel, “Fellowship Point.”...
To Foreignize or to Domesticate: Notes After Leading a Translation Seminar
Robert Chandler addresses the contradictory pulls translators face as they work....
The Name of the World: On Else Lasker-Schüler’s “Three Prose Works”
Jared Joseph reviews the first English translation of Else Lasker-Schüler’s major prose works....
Askew from the Nation: Thinking About Home and Country with Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin
Abena Ampofoa Asare on the diasporic wanderings — and singular meeting — of James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe....
New York Trance — Geoff Dyer and the Life of the Writer
In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence....
Bali Diary: At the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival
A visit to the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali....
A Strange Mind: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk
The novel is about modern city life, and the characters may be poor, but they are very modern. Their problem is adjusting to the individuality of the city....
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