Joan Silber

Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, including, most recently, Secrets of Happiness. Her novel Improvement won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. (February 2024)

Playing It Safe

Alice McDermott’s new novel, about American civilians in Vietnam during the war, asks whether the intricacy of moral complications precludes heroism.

Absolution

by Alice McDermott

February 8, 2024 issue

Friends: A Love Story

Jean Chen Ho’s main characters like each other plenty, with all the trouble that comes with that.

Fiona and Jane

by Jean Chen Ho

February 9, 2023 issue

Continually Startling News

There is a good deal to like about the heartlessness that tinges Clare Sestanovich’s fiction.

Objects of Desire

by Clare Sestanovich

December 16, 2021 issue

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