Reviews and Essays:
On Stephen Greenblatt’s Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
On Eleanor Henderson’s Twelve-Mile Straight
On Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
On Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl
On Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love
On Anne Helen Petersen’s Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud
On Sarah Perry’s Essex Serpent
How Did ‘Witch Hunt’ Become the Complaint of the Powerful?
On David Sedaris’s Theft by Finding
On Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy
On Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work
On Deb Olin Unferth’s Wait Till You See Me Dance
On Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Devil and Webster
On Jami Attenberg’s All Grown Up
On Katie Kitamura’s A Separation
On Claudia Rowe’s The Spider and the Fly
On Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day
On Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C
On Jeremiah Towers’s Table Manners
On Eimear McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians
On Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth
On Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow
The Wonderful, Terrible Power of Food in Roald Dahl
On Luke Dittrich’s Patient H.M.
On Nadja Spiegelman’s I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This
On Megan Abbott’s You Will Know Me
On Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel
On Catherine Banner’s The House at the Edge of Night
On Patrick Flanery’s I Am No One
Annie Proulx’s Barkskins is Lovely, Dark, and Deep
On harassment and Jessica Valenti’s Sex Object
On Ben Lerner’s irresponsible Hatred of Poetry
An essay on radical fatness, internet trolls, and Lindy West’s Shrill
An essay on glamorized murder, stalking, and Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts
An essay on queerness and reconciling feminism and domesticity
Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
Ethan Canin’s A Doubter’s Almanac
John Wray’s The Lost Time Accidents
Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling
Diana Athill’s Alive, Alive Oh!
David Searcy’s Shame and Wonder
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)’s Career of Evil
Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
Anna Lyndsey’s Girl in the Dark
Miranda July’s The First Bad Man
Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking
Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering
Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl
Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night
Jennifer Weiner’s All Fall Down
The collected love letters of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing
Francine Prose’s Lovers at the Chameleon Club
Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me
Mary Beard’s Confronting the Classics
Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatcher
Colm Toibin’s The Testament of Mary
Arts and Fashion:
On Doug Menuez’s ‘Fearless Genius’ exhibition
On Osaretin Ugiagbe’s ‘Unbelonging’ exhibition
On ‘Urban Riders’ by Mohamed Bourouissa
On ‘War/PostWar’ by Fons Iannelli
On ‘Mathematics’ by Peter Fraser
Profiles:
Roxane Gay: ‘Bad Feminist,’ Real Person
The Professionally Haunted Life of Helen Oyeyemi
‘Smoke’ Author Dan Vyketa Keeps It Messy
Selected News Coverage:
Chinua Achebe’s death, and literary accomplishments
Race and gender diversity questions in Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Writers’
Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son wins the Pulitzer Prize
Larks & Miscellanea:
A conversation with CTV’s Marcia MacMillan on Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work
A conversation with NPR’s Linda Wertheimer about the death of the inimitable Jackie Collins
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