1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (350+ words) Kuang and I spoke earlier this month—she is as smart in person as she is on the page, funny, insightful, and extremely curious. An edited version of our conversation follows: Adam Dalva: Your book activates so much nostalgia—of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (133+ words) In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word of this or any book, and would think it pompous, embarrassing,…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (190+ words) Welcome to season four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (571+ words) J.P. Donleavy, called Guts by his closest friends for his fighting spirit, refused rejection. The kid from the Bronx who knew how to box and eventually became famous as the author of The Ginger Man, is revealed in all his complexity,…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (358+ words) Literary bona fides: based on Ryan David Jahn’s The Dispatcher (2011) Patrick Brammall stars in this Australian thriller, in which a police dispatcher receives a call from a young woman who sounds like his daughter—who has been missing for 11 years…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (271+ words) lithub.com “Cormac asks what we think of the home so far, already knowing our answers.” The sun is hard and coarse. In an adjoining courtyard, I mention the mystery and drama I see in the play of light and…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Says a narrator in Marlon James’s freshly Booker-nominated The Disappearers, “I’ve made such a terrible mess out of being a homo.” The novel’s protagonists are all gay men in ‘80s and ‘90s Jamaica; each makes similar proclamations. “But the statement is unfair,…...