Letting go of Philip Roth

Disdain for conformity and a complicated hunger for money are insistent motifs across Highsmith’s early notebooks and diaries.

Will Hermes's new biography Lou Reed: The King of New York tries—and fails—to pin the rocker down.

Social media didn’t invent apathy, but it has a particular genius for reproducing it. At times, scrolling through one’s feed feels like reading a rollicking, absorbing social novel, but in fragments…

A conversation with the writer about her life and work.

Before Stephen Sondheim learned to read, he could identify records from his household collection by the particular shapes of the words on their spines. At

Judith Rossner’s “August,” from 1983, takes its title from the cruellest month—the one when many therapists go on vacation.

I wanted to cry. Instead I thought about my to-do list.

Early on in my publishing career, which was still early when it ended, I looked up what “congenial” means on my phone but it autofilled “congenital” into the dictionary due to prior use.

The insight and rigor of her writing changed the way we understood the work of psychoanalysis.

How mistaken identity and acts of reinvention define the life and work of the British playwright.

Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.

The many stories in “Life Is Everywhere” read like an encyclopedia whose every entry is at its heart a story of intimate betrayal.

Helen Oyeyemi’s story within a story within a story – Hannah Gold

The women were occupying an unused home owned by a house-flipping company with their children, in an act of civil disobedience.

The podcast hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell offers history lessons that middle-aged liberals, young socialists and even some conservatives can love.

Polanco died in solitary confinement at Rikers last year. Now her family has reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city.

Alejandro Zambra’s novel of poets, repetition, and change – Hannah Gold

Making an art of conversation.

During the summer of 2022, a troubling suspicion began to take root in my mind. It was June, and ever since I’d left my news blogging job the previous year, the compulsion I’d once felt to stand…

The protagonist of Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind” is a body of self-criticism in search of a reader.

Rereading Denis Johnson’s novels and stories in the years since his death it always surprises me how clear his voice comes through and how badly I needed

What a waste.

“What’s going on in contemporary fiction?” There’s no arguing with a question like that, it forces narrative. Something must be happening. The only way to answer it is to tell a story about thousands…

I wanted to cry. Instead I thought about my to-do list.

In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.

Partway through David Adjmi’s new narrative play, Stereophonic, five musicians and singers, assembled behind a recording studio’s glass window, workshop

A parasite is a homemaker, living in its host. In Bong Joon-ho’s new film it could be property, capital, commercialized art and artifice, or all of them together.

Whether about personal delusions or the collective hysteria of a witch trial, Rivka Galchen’s novels are parables of too-close reading.

Like McCarthy and the New York Intellectuals of yore, Gary Indiana has acquired the status of a novelist-critic, gleeful in his evisceration of public morality and correction of popular taste. But...

June of 1948, 11-year-old Sally Horner got in a car she had no hope of driving. What follows is horrifying, its aftermath sensationalized and managed at the expense of the story’s victim. Horner’s …

Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts announced his resignation after receiving a highly...

Roughly a quarter of the apartments in New York City are either pieds-à-terre or other nonprimary residences.

In Bruce Holsinger’s latest novel, “The Displacements,” the world’s first Category 6 hurricane prompts a reckoning.

In “Worry,” Alexandra Tanner puts a humorous spin on the fixations, disappointments, aversions and maladjustments of adulthood.

An HBO docuseries and a new memoir reimagine popular accounts of abusive artists from the perspective of survivors.

“It feels like, on a very basic level, a sort of séance. It’s a summoning.” 

Researchers outfitted cuttlefish with tiny 3-D glasses — for science!

As the pandemic and its pageant of inequality demonstrates, fantasies of possession can neither save our lives nor give them meaning.

A conversation with Mark McGurl about how the company changed the way books are written and the consequences of a service oriented reading culture.