“I try to avoid labels”: Jeff VanderMeer on his new novel, ecological disaster, and why he won’t run for public office
Nominally a hardboiled noir, Hummingbird Salamander is also a cri de coeur about our current ecological crisis.
What’s in a name? Alexandra Andrews’s debut investigates literary fame and duplicity
Who Is Maud Dixon? is about ambition, identity, and the malleable nature of personality.
The anxiety of influencers: Ellery Lloyd’s Instagram mommy thriller People Like Her
The twisty, fast-paced debut effectively skewers online culture while telling a tense story about a family threatened from within and without.
Debut novelist Rebecca Watson reckons with how form can be used to reflect the realities of contemporary society
little scratch acts as a kind of bridge between Modernism and our current culture of distraction.
Newly published poem by Vladimir Nabokov delves into the personal life of the Man of Steel
“The Man of To-morrow’s Lament” imagines Superman’s angst at not being able to live a normal life after marrying Lois Lane.
Brief Encounters: “Where the Door Is Always Open and the Welcome Mat Is Out” by Patricia Highsmith
The American author’s fiction is too frequently placed in a generic box; her output was much more wide ranging, including pieces like this atypical story.
The anxiety of influence: Victor LaValle rewrites H.P. Lovecraft
The Ballad of Black Tom asks who the real monsters are.
Simon & Schuster cancels book by Senator Josh Hawley after “dangerous insurrection” in Washington, D.C.
One of America’s largest publishers has decided to step away from publishing a forthcoming work by the pugilistic Missouri senator.
John le Carré mined moral ambiguity and Cold War paranoia to reinvent the modern espionage novel
The novelist, who famously eschewed literary awards and other national recognitions, leaves behind a corpus of work that transcends its genre and tells deeply immersive psychological stories.
Feminism and the capitalist impulse collide head-on in Leigh Stein’s blistering second novel
Self Care skewers the performative progressiveness that attends capitalist tech companies obsessed with clicks and user engagement.