African influence is resurgent in world fashion, music, visual arts, and, increasingly, literature. Two new novels demonstrate the continent’s cultural vitality.
Throughout the history of European thought, humor has always had an unruly, utopian impulse: one that transcended class and threatened to upend the social order.
Slow-paced and built on wildly imaginative premises, Karen Russell’s short stories teach us to approach life’s vicissitudes with curiosity, compassion, and delight.
All of Sudbanthad’s many characters experience nostalgia in this debut novel of interwoven lives, spanning a century in the ever-changing city of Bangkok.
In spite of all the ambition and selfishness that New York supposedly represents, I’ve found that the city’s density has encouraged me to forget myself.
Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.
In the second novel from one of the founding editors of n+1, readers travel to a country where the market is god, and the guy in charge is a crude thug
Tatyana Tolstaya is a formidable figure in Russian literary culture, and her dark, foreboding new collection of short stories defies conventional narrative forms
David Lodge’s 1980 novel ‘How Far Can You Go?’ uses humor to articulate lay Catholics’ struggle to reconcile a rule-oriented church with an adult faith
Twice on this trip home to Virginia, Douglas had drifted toward a wrong exit and now she had the wheel. She suspected he was more hung over than he admitted.
By the time Diego moved in, I was forty and Diego fifty, our marginal existences long established. We ranted about the torture regime he once fled. We danced tangos.
