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On the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s posthumously published novel, Until August.
AI-generated novels are here, but they hardly spell the end of fiction.
Chantal Johnson’s debut novel, Post-Traumatic, makes the case that we can—by moving away from representations of individual suffering.
The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.
Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.
Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.
László Krasznahorkai’s latest novel reflects on the power of the surveillance state through the perspective of a librarian who wishes to lock up all books.
The celebrated novelist treated the past seriously, depicting its psychological complexity and drawing out its present-day political implications.
In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”
Kemi Alabi’s Against Heaven answers generations of spiritual violence and threatened damnation with reclamation, repopulation, and a redefinition of heaven.
On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.
On the first English translation of the Austrian poet’s critical writings, composed against the backdrop of a society remaking itself in the shadow of fascism.
Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.
Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.
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