I wasn’t sure about the difference between need and want in that moment, and I have no better grasp on it two decades later. The distinction doesn’t usually present itself to me anymore because I’m ...

If you took Classics 101 in undergrad, or if you’ve visited a Western art museum recently, The Rape of the Sabine Women might ring a bell. But you might be a little fuzzy on the details. After all, ...

On the morning of October 21, Publishers Lunch announced that Catapult Books was being sold and would wind down operations by the end of the month. According to the Catapult Union, the company ...

An interview with Marlon James about his new novel, "The Disappearers" It’s been wild. The response to the book has been so massive and tremendous, and I’ve just been on the road. I was in South ...

Our review of Jane Schoenbrun's new book, "Public Access Afterworld." In the novel’s prologue, the unnamed first-person narrator explains, “This book is not my own.” It is, itself, a TV show, ...

Needlemouth, K-Ming Chang’s latest novel, is disturbing, uncanny, oppressive, and heavy. Young Cindy is at her grandmother’s house for the summer, accompanied by her cousins Mandy and Yangyang. Yet ...

Doretta Lau’s We Are Underlings follows marketing associate Zita Chang as she navigates the tumultuous opening of Hong Kong’s first theme park devoted to death. When her boss dies just a week before ...

Have you ever finished someone’s sentence, or voiced a thought that, to you, felt so singular, only to have the friend you’re talking to say, “I was just thinking the same thing!” The flurry of relief ...

This month I had the pleasure of catching up with my long-time friend and colleague, Jihoon Park, to discuss his debut novel, Stickman. Jihoon and I went to grad school together, where we read each ...

Whalefall, directed by Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You), follows the story of Jay Gardiner, played by Austin Abrams (Resident Evil, Weapons), as he searches for the remains of his father, Mitt, ...

Earlier this year, the Dutch poet Lieke Marsman died at the age of 35 from a rare form of cartilage cancer. Marsman, who served as the Netherlands’ poet laureate from 2021-2023, left behind an ...

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