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David Goddard Such a Fun Age Satirizes the White Pursuit of Wokeness
Kiley Reid’s debut novel is a funny, fast-paced, empathetic examination of privilege in America.
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Clemens Habicht The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism
Ida Tarbell championed reportorial methods and investigative goals that are as potent today as ever.
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Chau Luong Inside Tech’s Fever Dream
Drawn into the tech world, a 20-something wonders why she—and the rest of us—didn’t wise up to the grandiose myopia sooner.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Diving Into Pop Music’s Hidden Depths
A new book, from the hosts of the Switched on Pop podcast, approaches the genre with laserlike focus and palpable enthusiasm.
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Kelsey Dake Cool It, Krugman
The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist
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Jane Bown / Camera Press / Redux The Conundrum of Lucian Freud’s Portraits
How to assess an artist who was ruthless—and revealing—in work and life
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Pantheon An 18th-Century Birthing Scam
Dexter Palmer’s third novel, about a fantastical medical hoax, doubles as an exploration of the age-old desire to believe the unbelievable.
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Celina Pereira Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment
The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
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Star Tribune / Getty Margaret Atwood Bears Witness
Over the course of her writing career, she has explored the power and limits of personal testimony in times of crisis.
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Columbia University Press The 19th-Century Feminist Novel Pushed Out of the Russian Canon
Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life examines internalized oppression—and insists on the independence of the unconscious mind.
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Illustration: Arsh Raziuddin; LIbrary of Congress / Getty Thomas Edison’s Greatest Invention
It wasn’t the light bulb or the phonograph or the moving picture—or anything tangible. It was a way of thinking about technology.
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Chloe Cushman Ways of Being
Three new books explore the variety of transgender experiences.
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Celeste Sloman / The New York Times / ... Debbie Harry Stares Back
The Blondie singer’s memoir, Face It, wryly recounts making the most of being ogled.
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Bloomsbury Deborah Levy’s Disorienting, Captivating Fiction
The British novelist’s wry books veer from concrete realism to fractured blends of dream and memory.
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BenBella Books Neil Young’s Boring, Prophetic Message to Readers
The musician wrote his new book, To Feel the Music, the same way he makes records—according to a highly evolved aesthetic of half-assedness.
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Anthony Gerace Misunderstanding Susan Sontag
Her beauty and celebrity eclipse the real source of her allure—her commitment to aesthetic self-discipline.
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duncan1890 / Getty Rewriting the ‘Boy Genius’
Caitlin Horrocks’s debut novel builds on a rich tradition of women writers who complicate the myth of male virtuosity until it crumbles.
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Alexandra Bowman Edna O’Brien’s Lonely Girls
The setting of her new novel is terror-ridden Nigeria, a world away from her native Ireland, but the psychic territory is familiar.
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Oliver Munday; Museo Nacional de Arte And Then Job Said Unto the Lord: You Can’t Be Serious
In a new translation of the Book of Job, the famously repentant hero gives God a piece of his mind.
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Illustration: Paul Spella; Diana Walker / The Life ... Deconstructing Clarence Thomas
The justice’s reactionary legal philosophy rests on faith in the power of adversity to fuel black progress.
