Daniel Green reviews Rion Amilcar Scott’s The World Doesn’t Require You.
At Full Stop, Houman Barekat reads Jonathan Gibbs’ The Large Door as a knowing throwback to a kind of novel swept away by postmodernism.
Writing in The Baffler, Nathan Goldman admires the ambition but questions the achievements of Ben Lerner’s forthcoming novel, The Topeka School…
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Denise Riley’s Time Lived, Without Its Flow.
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing.
One of the most thoroughly considered responses to Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag comes from Robert Minto in a new essay at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Greg Gerke discusses writing Especially the Bad Things.
At The Millions, Seth L. Riley considers the stylistic aims of László Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming (trans. Ottilie Mulzet), the final volume in the author’s quartet of dark visions of Hungarian rural life.
Greg Gerke discusses the art of short fiction and the aural approach to writing literature.
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things.