8/31/20A girl obsesses over The Lying Life Of Adults in Elena Ferrante’s latest novel“The truth is difficult, growing up you’ll understand that, novels aren’t sufficient for it.” This proclamation in…
1/13/20Queer desire is beautifully messy in Garth Greenwell’s magnificent Cleanness“The so-called straight person is no safer than I am really,” James Baldwin said in his last known interview.…
9/30/19Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School is better without its “timely” labelIn Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School, an 8-year-old Adam Gordon, future high school debate champion, is…
7/15/19Chuck Klosterman’s Raised In Captivity is a bunch of empty premisesBilled as “microdoses of the straight dope” and somewhat charmingly subtitled Fictional Nonfiction, Chuck…
5/6/19Tragedy strikes an immigrant family in the bleak and beautiful The UnpassingThere’s a hothouse isolation pervading Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel that’s evocative of Jeffrey Eugenides’…
1/14/19Sex addiction turns tiresome in Adèle, from the author of The Perfect NannyAdèle, by the French-Moroccan author Leila Slimani, is set to be released in English tomorrow, coming to English…