Brandon Taylor: “The story can’t be so loyal to one character that it betrays another”

June 5, 2023
The celebrated novelist on how he makes character, how he writes scenes, and how he opened up his most recent novel by simply not writing at all.

Objects of Curiosity

September 2, 2020
Elena Ferrante's latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, is a marvelous blur.

The Porous Boundaries of Longing

April 8, 2020
Garth Greenwell's Cleanness is consciously, cannily, canonical.

In Search of an Ending

May 13, 2019
T Kira Madden's Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls charts a new path forward for millennial memoirs.

The Heavy Load

December 31, 2018
A New Year's kiss brings an unexpected surprise.
Illustration by Alana Salguero

I Wish I Could Leave It at That

October 3, 2018
Roxane Gay’s memoir is a testament to her skill with empathetic connection.