In the late 1960s, the critic Bevis Hillier invented the term ‘Art Deco’ for the commercial architecture of the...

September is National Translation Month, which is a good time to spotlight some of the queer books in translation out in 2025!

A novel of interlocking stories captures the ordinary lives and interior worlds of Cuban exiles seeking sanctuary in Miami

Known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, the deal followed two years of negotiations during the Obama administration.

She knew who the man was, knew a bullet furrow when she saw one.

A compelling read, one that comes up short and a scholarly, engaging history

Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it

How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.

Playboy was published in France in 2018 and was seized on by critics, and the public, as a powerful challenge to...

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The author and film-maker on why she was inspired to reimagine Moby-Dick in her new novel, her love of Coleridge and returning to the ‘addictive power of fiction’

The author, who shot to prominence with her 2021 debut novel ‘Assembly’, speaks to Katie Rosseinsky about writing habits, the future, and her button-pushing new book

Some readers may have been surprised to find a three-page comic in our February 27 issue: a collaboration by Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco titled “Never

On 9 February, two branches of the Muna family’s bookshops in East Jerusalem were ransacked by Israeli police. They...

Cyclicality – its rhythms, its humour – is central to Nan Goldin’s work. A title such as The Ballad of Sexual...

The Irish author’s exhilarating fourth novel, The City Changes Its Face, proves there is nobody writing sex like her.

When the pandemic hit, Stu Hennigan volunteered to distribute food to the poorest households in Leeds. Here is his raw, honest account of the scandalo...

‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’

This is what’s weird about Tinguely: what should be forbidding and abstract – mechanised geometries, industrial...

PN Review 251, January - February 2020

Modern Poetry and Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss; That Broke Into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott; My Secret Life by Krisztina Tóth; The Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar; Flood by Jessic...

When I came out as a trans woman in 2010 — going on estrogen, changing my pronouns — I had faith in something: For us, things will get better.

What does it mean to live in an era whose only good feelings come from coining names for the era (and its feelings)? On one hand, perhaps our surfeit of coinages, many inspired by various resurgent Ma...

The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.

Women who write ​about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less...

Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK, Europe & Commonwealth exc. Canada rights to Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye. Testard acquired the book from Peter Straus at R...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love and wonder in the face of exile and destruction.