
Shared Delusions
Katie Kitamura’s latest novel prizes open the question of what a family is and what pretenses sustain it.
Audition
by Katie Kitamura
April 24, 2025 issue
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Shared Delusions
Katie Kitamura’s latest novel prizes open the question of what a family is and what pretenses sustain it.
Audition
by Katie Kitamura
April 24, 2025 issue
A Self Divided
Since the rise of cable TV, corporations have sought to capture our valuable attention. But the way social media shatters our ability to focus has new implications for public discourse and politics.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
by Chris Hayes
March 27, 2025 issue
Not So Bad Guys
Joseph O’Neill’s new novel, Godwin, is a workplace drama that also manages to animate the forces that are fracturing our politics.
Godwin
by Joseph O’Neill
September 19, 2024 issue
Human Resources
In her new novel, Adelle Waldman gambles that it’s possible to draw out the interiority of her characters mainly by sketching their working conditions.
Help Wanted
by Adelle Waldman
April 18, 2024 issue
The Pregnancy Plot
In Reproduction, Louisa Hall combines a science-fiction riff on Frankenstein with the isolating reality of pregnancy in the contemporary United States.
Reproduction
by Louisa Hall
July 20, 2023 issue
The Nonconformist
The mood of John le Carré’s posthumously published novel, Silverview, is brisk and knowing compared with the melancholic, regretful tone of the earlier books.
Silverview
by John le Carré
February 10, 2022 issue
Are the Kids All Right?
If Jonathan Franzen’s earlier books were steeped in ironic social observation, Crossroads is an experiment in sincerity.
Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
October 21, 2021 issue
‘Being Charlie’
If sex had a defining feature in the 1990s, it was ubiquity
The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido
by David Friend
April 5, 2018 issue
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