“The Vivisectors,” by Missouri Williams, critiques the hollowness of contemporary life. But it’s tricky to gauge the book’s level of self-awareness.

Ben Lerner warps the record

Ben Lerner warps the record

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black

A short story by Hannah Gold. From AFM Issue 2, online and on newsstands now.

Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules.

In a new career-spanning collection of shorter fiction and non-fiction, the past often looms larger for Ozick than the present.

Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned. But...

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“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True “A must for the obsessive...

Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t

The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t

Late one evening when I was twenty, a boy I liked shared a theory: queer people who come out in adulthood go through a second adolescence. Freed from the