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The unnamed narrator of Sheila Heti’s new contemplative new novel Motherhood is ambivalent about having children. She…
The narrative that important, authoritative female novelists ultimately owe their brilliance to men refuses to die as…
As a rule of thumb, studies in which writers, even famous and successful ones, work are usually ramshackle—gross,…
Alissa Nutting’s wildly comedic Made for Love is a novel about many fetishes. It’s a book of a 76-year-old father’s…
If, today, you encountered social media, a periodical, or—in any likelihood—another person, you undoubtedly learned,…
Paula Hawkins’s new page-turner, Into the Water, is set is in Beckford, a small tourist town in northern England. The…
Japanese actress Sonoya Mizuno is joining Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, and Gemma Chan in the film Crazy Rich Asians, an…
Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot, is a novel about language. Or, more specifically, it’s about language’s…
The narrator of Katie Kitamura’s novel A Separation has a secret. After five years of marriage, the unnamed narrator is…
You may recall that last summer, we celebrated some glorious news: the imminent production of a film chronicling the…
Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things opens in a prison. Ten women have been dragged from their homes, off the…
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Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin, perhaps unnerved by the similarities between Donald Trump and the barbaric…
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