18 Jun 2013
Amy Brill’s debut novel The Movement of Starsis a story of uncommon depth and precision. Inspired by the life of the mid-19th century scientist Maria Mitchell, Brill weaves an astral tale of a young astronomer’s diligent search for the next comet amidst the complex hypocrisy of race relations thirty years before America celebrated its centennial.
13 Jun 2013
Taipei follows Paul, a Brooklyn-based twentysomething writer resembling Lin who drifts in and out of parties, relationships, and various chemically induced states of consciousness.
6 Jun 2013
In Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell, Katherine Angel opens up. This month marks the Stateside publication of the U.K. scholar’s poetic rumination on gender, sexuality, and, of course, desire.
5 Jun 2013
The Science Delusion is essentially an artist’s polemic, not only against the New Atheists but against the ideology they recommend as an alternative to religion.
22 May 2013
In the new gripping and important anthology with a foreword by Colum McCann, short stories about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hauntingly unfold and reveal truths about our deepest fears and desires.
20 May 2013
A Questionable Shape is ostensibly about zombies, but Sims is much less interested in chase scenes and infection countdowns than in using undeath to explore memory, home, family, love, and the question what makes a person a person rather than a zombie?
16 May 2013
Hi, This is Conchitaoffers an encompassing view of the ways we become detached from intimacy and the painful, misguided ways in which we attempt to retrieve it.
13 May 2013
Esteemed writer and academic, Claire Messud, discusses her new novel The Woman Upstairs,its controversial reception, and our entangled forms of media.
Interviewed by Lee Bob Black
Discussed in this interview with author Justin Taylor: not thinking about writing, choosing whether to embrace or erase literary influence, the nonexistence of rules of writing, becoming a stronger reader, avoiding shooting your literary load on cryptic notes, writing about music, what an editor’s job really should be about, and how writing isn’t always a choice. Continue reading "JUSTIN TAYLOR"…