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Drawn & Quarterly The Cartoonist Who Makes You Look Twice
With Boundless, Jillian Tamaki makes a profound case for the primacy of images in storytelling.
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Columbia Pictures What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Unruly’ Women
A new book offers nuanced appreciations of celebrities, from Serena to Madonna to Hillary to Caitlyn, who refused to know their place.
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Doug McLean Finding the Emotional Truth in Horror Writing
The novelist Victor LaValle on how dark material hits hardest when it’s balanced out with wonder
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HarperCollins / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Boldness of Roxane Gay’s Hunger
In her moving new memoir, the writer explores desire, denial, and life in an “unruly body.”
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Associated Press Running Through the Pain
In The Long Run, Catriona Menzies-Pike delves into the history of women’s marathoning while considering the sport’s impact on her own life after unimaginable loss.
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Paramount Why Adolescence Lasts Forever
A new book explores the dynamics of popularity, and the ways our high-school selves stay with us far beyond the teenage years.
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Vince Bucci/Invision/AP Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture Says the Unsayable
He describes great literature at length both to explain his songs and to show why they’re beyond explanation.
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Louis du Mont / Getty Finding Your Audiobook Voice
The author of The Mighty Franks on the peculiar pleasures of writing his memoir—and then recording himself reading the whole thing aloud
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Twelve Books How Al Franken Got America to Take Him Seriously
The Minnesota senator’s new book explores his strange career path from Saturday Night Live to Congress.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Tragedy of Men
In a pithy and insightful new book, the British artist Grayson Perry laments how ill-suited masculinity is for modern life.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Real Reasons for Marvel Comics’ Woes
A recent push for diversity has been blamed for weak print sales, but the company’s decades-old business practices are the true culprit.
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Eduardo Verdugo / AP How One Hundred Years of Solitude Became a Classic
When Gabriel García Márquez’s most famous novel was published 50 years ago, it faced a difficult publishing climate and baffled reviews.
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Doug McLean Keeping Track of Every Book You’ve Ever Read
A New York Times editor on the coffee-stained list she’s kept for almost three decades
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AP The Intimate, Political Power of the Open Letter
A new collection titled Radical Hope shows how the format has become a vehicle for literary activism by writers of color.
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Peter Nicholls Anne Garréta’s Very Different Sort of Confessional Writing
The experimental novelist’s newly translated work tackles assumptions about the genre—with surprising results.
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Aly Song The Leavers Is a Wrenching Tale of Parenthood
Lisa Ko’s novel, about the disappearance of an undocumented mother, places an imperfect victim within a cruel system.
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Vintage Pussy, the First Trump-Era Novel, Is a Brutal Satire
The author Howard Jacobson, whose new book is a fairy tale inspired by the 45th president, calls writers to arms.
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FSG When Talking Canines Took Over New York
Twenty years after it was first published, Kirsten Bakis’s extraordinary novel Lives of the Monster Dogs still has a lot to say about the entwined destinies of animals and humans.
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Markus Schreiber / AP The Borrowed Words of Ivanka Trump
The “inspirational quotes” of her new book, Women Who Work, function as their own, tidy versions of the alternative fact.
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Doug McLean When Memories Are True Even When They’re Not
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout discusses Louise Glück’s poem “Nostos” and the powerful way literature can harbor recollection.
