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.
I Wish I Could Leave It at That
October 3, 2018
Roxane Gay’s memoir is a testament to her skill with empathetic connection.
A Little More than Kin
August 6, 2018
Justin Torres's We the Animals, which has been adapted into a film, is difficult to pin down — but all the more powerful for it.