Men behaving badly, part one: George Santos
Chiusano's portrait of a younger Santos is of someone painfully insecure, thin skinned, and desperate for some kind of validation and acceptance.
The Spooky Season: In two novellas and a short story, Eric LaRocca peels away the layers of poisoned relationships
The three pieces represent a triptych of horror tales that examine the various ways lack of personal connection can eat away at a person.
The Spooky Season: Alison Rumfitt’s second novel examines repression and abjection through the lens of extreme body horror
Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
“The unsaid, for me, exerts great power”: Nobel laureate Louise Glück is dead at age eighty
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
The Spooky Season: Jordan Peele adds some Hollywood star power to new anthology of horror tales by Black authors
Bringing these stories together in one place highlights the genre contributions of Black writers.
Norwegian dramatist and novelist Jon Fosse named the 2023 Nobel laureate in literature
"Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism."
The Spooky Season: Kathe Koja’s 1991 debut, The Cipher, remains a classic of the horror genre
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
Michael Wolff’s book about Fox News is full of dishy gossip, but suffers from false equivalency
Wolff is not interested in a sober analysis of Fox News and its pernicious effect on the American polity.
Terror’s long tail: Jeffrey Toobin revisits the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to trace the growing roots of right-wing U.S. extremism
There is a direct line between the Oklahoma City bombing and the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021.
Zero-Sum, the latest collection from Joyce Carol Oates, is a grab bag of goodies from various genres
This latest volume offers an energetic point of entry as well as a strong argument for Oates's continued relevance.