Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel The Nursery is visceral and uncomfortable— Molnar presents the reader with a portrait of new motherhood with all its agonies, its…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 19th
An Yu’s Ghost Music is one that feels intimately real and hypnotically unreal in equal measure: at its heart, it is a domestic drama, chronicling…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 5th
Maggie Millner’s Couplets feels both timely and self-assuredly out-of-place in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. The novel in verse was published in early February,…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 26th
Apocalypse, and all its world-ending associations, might feel like an apt definition of our era. Franny Choi’s poetry collection The World Keeps Ending and the…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 5th
When I first opened Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung, I sat alone in my room, one among the laststragglers of those yet to vacate campus…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 29th
Is zero a number? 0 is the exception to many numerological rules. A number cannot be dived by 0, and any product of 0 is…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 18th
“I’m not sick.” These words, said by Susan Stryker in response to a transphobic conference-goer in 1995, are what inaugurated both the field of trans…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 4th
Musical Tables, the newest release from former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, is a refreshing embrace of minimalistic, short form poetry: Paired with themes…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 27th
George Saunders’ newest collection of short stories, Liberation Day, is an intriguing blend of realism and dystopian, but Saunders shines brightest in the stories that…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 20th
Much like this book’s eponymous animal, Gabrielle Bates’ debut poetry collection Judas Goat takes us toward a place where our humanity meets the hard edge…