“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History
Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings
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IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets
Every time the names of products or microcelebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad
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Kevin Lambert Proves That Literature Can Still Be an Invigorating Slap in the Face
His elegant and vicious new novel tracks the fall of a good billionaire
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Self-Diagnosis Is Making Memoir Too Predictable
The joy of reading memoir is to watch another mind puzzle through its inner mechanics. If the outcome is already decided, why bother?
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When Britney and Pamela and Paris Tell All
Memoir writing offers women defined by their images a space to speak. But we’re seldom satisfied with what they give us
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Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience
The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told
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Hadfield, We Have a Problem
The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off
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Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?
Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue
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The Two Moments That Changed Alicia Elliott’s Life
The author talks about her new novel, And Then She Fell, and the experiences she shares with her protagonist
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