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María Jesús Contreras ‘That’s Just Like White Noise.’
Any writer with an interest in probing “American magic and dread”—to borrow a phrase from the novel—is probably in conversation with Don DeLillo, whether or not she knows it.
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Hoi Chan The Diagnosis Trap
Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves?
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Jamiel Law White Author, Black Paragons
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters
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Benjamin Rasmussen An American Community in 10 Fragments
How one photographer documented the aftermath of Colorado’s Marshall Fire
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Daniele Castellano The Madness of Method Acting
Does acting need to be grueling to be good?
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Illustration by Soomyeong Kim Fiction Meets Chaos Theory
Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel tweaks American history and traces the disorienting consequences.
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Illustration by John Gall; Searchlight Pictures The Western Rides Again
A new cohort of directors, all women, is exploring the death wish that infuses the genre—and proposing visions of repair.
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Scott Gelber Extremely Online and Wildly Out of Control
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel explores the mind, and heart, of an internet-addled protagonist.
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Photo illustration by Arsh Raziuddin* What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors
Politicians’ refusal to admit when hospitals are overwhelmed puts a terrible burden on health-care providers.
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Cassi Namoda Marilynne Robinson’s Prodigal Son
Her new novel, Jack, explores the loneliest character in her Gilead series and the legacy of race.
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Carlotta Manaigo Reiki Can’t Possibly Work. So Why Does It?
The energy therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care.
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Alexei Vella Boy, Uninterrupted
Ben Lerner, portraitist of talkative men, explores the roots of white male rage.
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Katherine Lam The Death of the Pioneer Myth
A remarkable novel, Lost Children Archive, and a work of history, The End of the Myth, reckon with a walled border.
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Illustration: Celina Pereira; Nationaal Archief / Wikimedia Lucia Berlin’s Harrowing, Radiant Fiction
Having lived a hard life, the late author refused to erase her female characters—or the brutality that deranges them.
