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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.
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.
Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.
Newly translated into English, Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a vivid portrait of immigrant displacement and the ironies of our global cultural ecosystem.
The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. Was abandoning radicalism was the right choice?
On Dennis Cooper’s transgressive fiction about marginalized men.
The French Algerian writer steadfastly defended democracy and humanity against dogmatic ideologies of all stripes.
In Vineland, his underappreciated 1990 novel, Thomas Pynchon anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.
Rereleased this year in a single volume, Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy Three Californias imagines three possible futures for the world writ large through the lens of Orange County, California.
Michel Houellebecq’s Islamophobia and chauvinism have made him a favorite intellectual of right extremists. So why does he appeal to so many on the left as well?
Alternate histories like Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America—newly adapted by HBO—force us to imagine a different America.
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