Fox, the latest novel from Joyce Carol Oates, is a whodunit combined with a psychological dissection of an abhorrent character
Oates has generally carved a bifurcated path in her publication history.
Riding shotgun: Two disaffected teens take a road trip heading north and bad things happen in Vijay Khurana’s debut novel
The discontent and anomie of these characters practically seeps from their pores.
Dana A. Williams’s new book about Toni Morrison’s time at Random House shines a light – albeit a limited one – on an underexplored aspect of the writer’s career
The picture that emerges of Morrison as editor is of someone simultaneously dedicated to her authors and interested in helping them find wide audiences while also firm – not to say obstinate – in her opinion of her own editorial talent.
Extremely online: Two new novels explore the brutal nihilism of digital addiction and its effects
rekt tells much the same story as Feeders, but from a dude's perspective.
Poems of love and protest combine in Claude McKay’s piercingly relevant 2022 collection Harlem Shadows
These poems testify to the range of McKay's emotive field.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 29: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
The presentation of the technology in the story firmly situates it in the tech skeptic realm.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 27: “The Loves of Lady Purple” by Angela Carter
Lazarus, raised from the dead, is a potent biblical allusion for the marionette that comes to life as a woman.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 26: “Pending Licensor Approval” by Adam Cesare
"Pending Licensor Approval" is structured largely as a conversation between a writer and a bartender.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 21: “Brasília” by Clarice Lispector; Katrina Dodson, trans.
"But that is exactly how we live: lost in time and space."
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 18: “Glimmer” by Ian Rankin
"Glimmer" is a lean story, right from its declarative opening sentence.