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  1. 2024 preview
    23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024With new wonders from Rachel Cusk, Percival Everett, Tommy Orange, and more.
  2. best of 2023
    The Best Books of 2023Ten authors whose original ideas challenged our preconceived notions of the world.
    By Maris Kreizman
  3. fall preview 2023
    24 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallThere’s even a book by Babs.
  4. profile
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Is Asking the Hard QuestionsAfter his first book was a hit, he decided to use his follow-up to tackle the most pressing issue he could think of: the US prison system.
    By Mallika Rao
  5. awards
    Autofiction Writer Annie Ernaux Awarded the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBest known for her memoir The Years.
    By Zoe Guy
  6. at home in asian america
    The Mixed MetaphorWhy does the half-Asian, half-white protagonist make us so anxious?
    By Andrea Long Chu
  7. book review
    When Grief Returns Again, and Again, and Again …In her time-looping novel The Furrows, Namwali Serpell’s deft use of repetition makes the plot feel dynamic even as she retells the same story.
    By Mary Retta
  8. awards
    National Book Award for Fiction Longlist Honors Eight Fiction DebutsWe love to see it!
    By Zoe Guy
  9. discourse
    You Know Holden Caulfield Isn’t Real, Right?The way a fictional character should make you feel is … however they make you feel.
    By Isle McElroy
  10. book review
    In These Novels of Tech Dystopia, Memories Belong to the CloudJennifer Egan’s The Candy House and Vauhini Vara’s The Immortal King Rao are two very different books with a troubling shared prediction.
    By Mallika Rao
  11. perfil
    Fernanda Melchor y la tragedia del machismoCon historias inspiradas en el crimen, la novelista arroja luz a los rincones oscuros de la masculinidad.
    By Max Pearl
  12. profile
    Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic MachismoIn her crime-inspired novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.
    By Max Pearl
  13. book review
    In the Novel Post-Traumatic, a Trauma Plot Refuses the ObviousIn Chantal V. Johnson’s novel Post-Traumatic, the story of one woman’s breakdown feels visceral and specific.
    By Jamie Hood
  14. awards
    Katie Kitamura, Lauren Groff on National Book Award for Fiction LonglistPlus three debut novels.
    By Justin Curto
  15. book review
    In Chang-rae Lee’s My Year Abroad, There’s No Escaping the SelfThe novel by Chang-rae Lee turns a coming-of-age trope into something much more bleak and strange.
    By Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard
  16. fact vs fiction
    What Do Fiction Writers Owe Their IRL Inspiration?Cat Person and Stillwater constantly betray their main characters. It’s what makes them interesting.
    By Alice Bolin
  17. must reads
    Here Is the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Long ListThe winner’s will be announced at a (virtual, duh) awards ceremony later this fall.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  18. fiction
    ‘I Was 15 and He Was 42’Chapter one of My Dark Vanessa, the debut novel from Kate Elizabeth Russell.
    By Kate Elizabeth Russell
  19. the politics of fiction
    Alexander Chee on How to Unlearn EverythingWhen it comes to writing the “other,” what questions are we not asking?
    By Alexander Chee
  20. the politics of fiction
    Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story?Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.
    By Lila Shapiro
  21. national book awards
    Here Are Your 2019 National Book Awards FinalistsFeaturing Marlon James, Susan Choi, and more.
    By Justin Curto
  22. national books awards
    Here Is the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction LonglistIncluding Colson Whitehead and Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  23. talking books
    Novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn on Coming Out and Finding HomeThe Jamaican-born Brooklynite’s second novel, Patsy, reinvents the immigrant story.
    By Lauren LeBlanc
  24. year in culture 2018
    In Fiction, It Was the Year of the WomanAmid Trump-obsessed nonfiction blockbusters, women led the way forward for fiction that matters.
    By Hillary Kelly
  25. The 90 Best Books for Comedy FansThe ultimate comedy library.
    By Brian Boone and Jenny Nelson
  26. Fresh Complaint: Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short-Story SidelineThe book is most interesting for the view it affords us of Eugenides absorbing various formal and topical trends.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  27. books
    Bill Clinton and James Patterson Are Writing a Novel About a Missing PresidentWhomever could it be about?
    By Dee Lockett
  28. the obama years
    Considering the Novel in the Age of ObamaWhat the standout fiction of the last eight years can tell us about an art form, and a country, in flux.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  29. Lena Dunham Is Writing a Short Story Collection Called ‘Best and Always’Now that she’s already published a memoir, Lena Dunham is giving fiction a try for her next book. According to Vulture, Dunham is currently […]
    By Megh Wright
  30. summer selections 2016
    20 Fun Fiction Books to Read at the Beach, As Chosen by AuthorsHandpicked by Alexander Chee, Jenny Han, and J. Courtney Sullivan.
    By Maris Kreizman
  31. Can Short Stories Still Shock?Modes once heralded as avant-garde now linger among the array of strategies available to any writer.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  32. unfinished business
    Unfinished Tolkien Story Is on Its WayStateside publication is set for April 2016.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  33. A Commercial for Floral Essentials Shampoo, Based on the Bestselling […]I used to think that raising my three boys was a handful. They would keep me on my toes all day, so I didn’t always have time to worry about my […]
    By Brian Boone
  34. books
    At Home With Claire Messud and James Wood, the First Couple of American FictionOn the eve of the publication of Messud’s new book, she can’t shake the feeling she’s still an outsider.
    By Boris Kachka
  35. the fall of lance armstrong
    Australian Library Plans to Move Lance Armstrong Books to the ‘Fiction’ SectionSydney’s Manly Library is not messing around.
    By Delia Paunescu
  36. the way we serialize fiction now
    Jennifer Egan’s New Yorker Story Will Be TweetedAll 8,500 words of it.
    By Zach Dionne
  37. George Saunders’ Latest: ‘Home’This week’s New Yorker is the annual Fiction Issue, and as such is full of wonderful short stories by excellent writers. Especially of note is […]
    By Adam Frucci
  38. A New David Sedaris Story: ‘Vomit-Eating Flies’Here’s a new short story by David Sedaris entitled “Vomit-Eating Flies.” It’s set to be included in the paperback version of Squirrel Seeks […]
    By Adam Frucci
  39. unibrow
    How The New Yorker ‘20 Under 40’ Is Like a Highbrow, Literary American IdolSimon Cowell is not involved.
    By Willa Paskin
  40. books
    Read the Short Story James Franco Wrote for Esquire“Me and Joe, we just sit.”
    By Edith Zimmerman