“They have washed their hands for you. / And they take the bus home.” —Jericho Brown
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Joe Scapellato on “The Made-Up Man” and the Myth of the Self
In Scapellato’s new novel, a man is pulled into a noir detective mystery he doesn’t want to solve.
Posted inBooks
This Week In Books: The New Lord and Lady of the Apartment
“Infamously … Goethe dismissed the younger writer as diseased.”
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack.
To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
In Defense of Schadenfreude
Historian Tiffany Watt Smith argues that schadenfreude, the joy we derive from another’s misfortune, is just a natural part of the very complex emotional responses we have as human beings.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, History, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Namwali Serpell on Doing the Responsible Thing — Writing an Irresponsible Novel
“I joke that this is the great Zambian novel you didn’t know you were waiting for.”
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Believe That Silence Is Ineffective’: Devi S. Laskar on Invisibility and American Terror
Laskar’s debut novel imagines an alternate ending to an incident from her real life: When law enforcement agents raided her home, and confiscated her unfinished novel, what if she had refused to comply?
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘In a Marriage, You Grow Around Each Other’: An Interview with Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley on gaining the sense of authority she needed to write fiction, the authors whose work opens the door for her to write, and the way we are formed by our connections with other people.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Feature, Story
Sleeping with Amazon
Sometimes it’s not who you work with, but who you work for.
