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.
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything”: Milan Kundera, one of the great Eastern European writers of the 20th century, dead at 94
He was unafraid to create unlikable characters and asked his readers to confront material designed to make them uncomfortable in their own moral certainties.
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s novel The Centre serves up a feminist horror story about language and storytelling
The novel parcels out its secrets judiciously, saving the final reveal for the very last sentence.
The fight of their lives: In the debut novel by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, prisoners battle to the death on an extreme-sports reality TV show
One of satire's great attributes is its ability to turn its spotlight on its recipient.
For art’s sake: Michael Finkel examines the life and crimes of the world’s most prolific art thief
Ultimately, Breitweiser's psychology remains something of a mystery.