The Female-Midlife-Crisis Novel
Miranda July’s new book is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy.
Miranda July’s new book is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy.
A star since childhood, she spent decades guarding her privacy. On-screen, she’s always played the solitary woman under pressure. But in a pair of new roles, she’s revealed a different side of herself.
A satirist of literary Brooklyn now explores life in an upstate shopping warehouse.
How the cartoonist Raina Telgemeier, the author of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, turned the anxious kid into a hero for the 21st century
Zadie Smith’s ambitious new novel asks: Do we expect the genre to do too much?
Any writer with an interest in probing “American magic and dread”—to borrow a phrase from the novel—is probably in conversation with Don DeLillo, whether or not she knows it.
Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves?
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters
How one photographer documented the aftermath of Colorado’s Marshall Fire
Does acting need to be grueling to be good?