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Illustration: Paul Spella; Sal Alas / Westend61 / … The Art of Second Chances
In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms.
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Kim Ryu Amy Hempel Is the Master of the Minimalist Short Story
Amy Hempel’s best short stories reveal how rich spareness can be.
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Illustration by Jesse Draxler; Martin Lengemann / LAIF … How Writing ‘My Struggle’ Undid Knausgaard
The iconoclastic author, whose six-volume autobiographical novel is now complete in English, has lost his faith in radical self-exposure. What happened?
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Bianca Bagnarelli The Female Persuasion Should Be a Literary Breakout. Will It Be?
Meg Wolitzer’s novel is a timely, dynamic examination of women and power that male readers and gatekeepers should take seriously.
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Sally Deng Jennifer Egan’s Surprising Swerve Into Historical Fiction
In Manhattan Beach, very few things are what they appear to be.
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Ashley Mackenzie The Uncoupling
Her marriage broken, her house dismantled, Rachel Cusk has broken apart her fiction, too, remaking it in new ways.
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Therese Mitchell / Courtesy of Joseph Mitchell's Estate Joe Mitchell’s Secret
The legendary New Yorker writer freely mixed fact and fiction—much of what he wrote wouldn’t meet today’s fact-checking standards. But maybe literary journalism has lost more than it’s gained.
