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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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Drawn and Quarterly The Graphic Novel That Captures the Anxieties of Being Undocumented
Jérôme Ruillier’s The Strange understands how the immigrant experience for those without papers can be frightening, isolating, and rarely straightforward.
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Doug McLean A Writer’s Fixation on Sound
The author R. O. Kwon reflects on the relationship of rhythm to writing and how she stopped obsessing over the first 20 pages of her new novel, The Incendiaries.
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Associated Press Storytellers Grapple With the Porn Identity
In new works, Jon Ronson and Tom Perrotta examine the cultural impact of a digital sexual revolution.
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Warwick Goble The Dark Morality of
Fairy-Tale Animal BridesBeauty and the Beast, a new collection of folk stories from around the world, explores the strangeness of interspecies relationships.
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Warner Bros. The Dark Allure of Black Mass
Johnny Depp's portrayal of the mob boss Whitey Bulger may not quite rank as a classic of the genre. But it's still awfully good.
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Greg Baker / AP Starbucks Adds New Ingredient to Pumpkin Spice Latte: Pumpkin
The coffee company is out with the fake ingredients, in with the real.
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