Arch Manning laughs about assault, Steve Sarkisian walks off on Holly Rowe, and the expectations on women to rise above it all.

"We all wonder what it would be like to live a different kind of life — but what if you could turn the TV on and see that fantasy playing out on the screen? That’s the premise at the center...

An Interview Series With Artists and Entertainers About the Lives Never Lived

A caretaker finds solace in TV, until she discovers a channel featuring a woman who looks and acts just like her, living a far more liberated life in Isle McElroy’s ‘Satellite.’ See the cover here.

Isle McElroy reflects on the intimacy of a virus shared between lovers, and comes to a surprising diagnosis. Only on AFM.

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Isle McElroy's upcoming workshop unpacks novel openings

Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn is autofiction told from a sidelong distance.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that one of the most common problems a novelist faces when creating fictional characters is the problem every person must face: the struggle to know thyself. In a...

Isle McElroy is the author of the novels The Atmospherians and People Collide. Other work appears in The Cut, The New York Times, Vulture, Esquire, and elsewhere.

All Culture is Fast Casual Now

Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

Zach Cregger's new film and my Tin House Summer Workshop lecture on the limits of empathy.

On Sorry, Baby and The Loser Component

We asked real-life hot people and other experts about how to have a better time boning.

Whether you want to make sense of reality or escape it — through climate fiction, searing memoirs, and tight thrillers.

UNLV’s literary institute launches two new fellowship programs.