Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.

Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.

New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle.

Why read historical fiction? A new novel by the author of “Hamnet” offers one answer: because it’s fun.

A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.

A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.

Why read historical fiction? A new novel by the author of “Hamnet” offers one answer: because it’s fun.

In a new book, Adam Phillips wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy.

In a new book, Adam Phillips wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy.

America’s Trumpiest arts administrator leaves the institution renamed, nearly closed, and wildly unpopular.

In “The Copywriter,” by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset.

If you laugh at unfunny jokes, raise your hand too quickly, or can’t decide on your favorite color, you may be exhibiting a fawn response.

If you laugh at unfunny jokes, raise your hand too quickly, or can’t decide on your favorite color, you may be exhibiting a fawn response.

Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators

Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…

A reader trusts the author’s voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble.

The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.

The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.

The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.

Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.

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Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.

A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.

A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.

His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve missed out on.

His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve missed out on.