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''Case Study,'' by Graeme Macrae Burnet, is a novel of found documents detailing troubled lives and shifting identities. CASE STUDY, by Graeme Macrae Burnet To get to Primrose Hill from [...]

INDIGO Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things in Between By Padgett Powell A number of possible metaphors from Padgett Powell's new essay collection, ''Indigo,'' suggest themselves as ways of [...]

THE LARGESSE OF THE SEA MAIDEN DENIS JOHNSON. RANDOM HOUSE. JANUARY 16. 224 PAGES. $27. How many readers of Denis Johnson's Jesus'Son have wondered what happens to Fuckhead when he [...]

FOR SEVEN DECADES, we've been studying American novels by talking about 'postmodern' and 'postwar,' the latter a category that has outlasted its usefulness, at least since the death of Norman [...]

PLUS: Our top picks in comic books, video games, stand-up specials, and podcasts, and a sprawling survey of culture-makers on their favorite movies, TV shows, albums, and performances, and the [...]

The article discusses on book industry and the business of publishing. Topics include information on various types of rights involved in publishing in U.S.; increase in the popularity of U.S. market for books and the various genres; and impact of social media on the publishing industry including influencers on platforms like BookTok.

THE DINNER PARTY AND OTHER STORIES BY JOSHUA FERRIS. LITTLE, BROWN. 256 PAGES. $26. JOSHUA FERRIS ACHIEVED something of a pop-lit crossover hit ten years ago with his first novel, [...]

INTIMATIONS BY ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN. HARPER. 240 PAGES. THE BEST OF the stories in Alexandra Kleeman's collection Intimations unfold in dreamlike settings that are more than a little dangerous. There are [...]

I'M CURSED WITH a mind that looks at a sentence and sees grammar before it sees meaning. It might be that I'm doing math by other means, that I overdid [...]

The article discusses the work profile of Christopher Lasch, an American historian, moralist and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. It discusseshow he historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled "the culture of narcissism;" and also mentions some of his books such as "The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times."

Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns 1985-1988, by Gary Indiana, edited by Bruce Hainley. New York: Semiotext(e). 600 pages. THE FIRST THING to say about Gary Indiana as an [...]

The article discusses the need to respect literary culture and great writing and support authors in the society. Topics include how Random House had canceled the publication of author Norman Mailer's 1957 essay, ‘The White Negro' " and "the objections of feminist and cultural gadfly Roxane Gay; history of the U.S. Publishers regarding publishing; and publishing event after Mailer's death in 2007 and his wife Norris Church Mailer's memoir "A Ticket to the Circus" in 2010.

THE STORY GOES that, over lunch one day at the University of Chicago, Philip Roth was telling his friend Richard Stern what he'd gotten up to a few summers before, [...]

THE MARS ROOM BY RACHEL KUSHNER. SCRIBNER. 352 PAGES. $27. WHEN A PARTICULAR QUOTATION keeps appearing before your eyes, it must be speaking to the times. This year I keep [...]

MOVIES By David Edelstein and Emily Yoshida ANNIHILATION. To dismiss it as woowoo nonsense would be to miss out on all the emotional work that Alex Garland and Natalie Portman [...]

THE FICTIONAL scandal named in the title of Alan Hollinghurst's new novel, The Sparsholt Affair, involves a minister of Parliament, political corruption, and a tryst between two businessmen friends, David [...]

ZADIE SMITH ATTENDS dinner parties. A few of them are glimpsed in her new collection of essays, Feel Free. At a dinner of 'old friends, north London intellectuals,' just after [...]

when i arrived at her cottage in Newfane, Vermont, Helen DeWitt was at work in a spacious room on the first floor. On the table in front of her was [...]

Talent, inspiration, hard work--some combination of these elements yields literature. Work is the simple one--anybody, we think, can work hard, can develop a work ethic. But we also believe writing [...]

Byline: christian lorentzen Have we held Don DeLillo's Underworld against him? Masterpieces of an epic scale are a tricky business, not least for the distorting effect they can have on [...]

Byline: lindsay zoladz, matt zoller seitz, christian lorentzen pop / lindsay zoladz The Story of His LifeEx-One Direction singer Zayn is still figuring himself out on his first solo album. [...]

Byline: matt zoller seitz, david edelstein, christian lorentzen TV / matt Zoller SEitz Spying Saved Our Marriage The Jenningses are tight again, and The Americans is better than ever in [...]

Byline: david edelstein, christian lorentzen, matt zoller seitz movies / david edelstein Even Better Than Google Glass The augmented-reality comedy Creative Control is virtually perfect. benjamin dickinson's cheeky, ultrachic sci-fi [...]

Byline: christian lorentzen perhaps like me you recall first encountering the poetry of Walt Whitman as a high-school student and reacting to certain lines with adolescent giggles. ItÇÖs an experience [...]

Byline: christian lorentzen New York: Capital of the 20th Century by Kenneth Goldsmith 'Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion.' Goldsmith is a [...]

Byline: david edelstein, jesse green, christian lorentzen movies / David EDELSTEIN Irish Good-bye Saoirse Ronan quits Dublin for New York City in Brooklyn. The film Brooklyn is a study in [...]

An interview with Gordon Lish, former fiction editor of the journal "Esquire," is presented. Topics discussed by Lish include how he considers himself as writer or editor, his job in radio station NBC as an announcer, and how he met author Ken Kesey through his old wrestling coach or English teacher Philip Temko.

The article emphasizes how Gen X novelists explore inward themes, preferring metaphysical over political claims and favoring moral ambiguity. It highlights scenes from Zadie Smith's novels, showcasing the repercussions of action without understanding, revealing the hindrances to genuine human connection due to intellectual and political superiority.

Byline: david edelstein, jesse green, christian lorentzen Shock Generator You'll want to submit to Milgram-experiment drama Experimenter. movies / david edelstein the playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of [...]

Byline: christian lorentzen Love may not be the first word that comes to mind when you hear the name Jonathan Franzen, but it's a word that's become more and more [...]