Constance Debré is the author of Play Boy, winner of the 2018 Coupole Prize, and Love Me Tender, translated from the French by Holly...

“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”

by Lauren Berlant

by Justin E. H. Smith via Substack 1. In a speech to the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in Moscow in 1934, Central Committee...

Between the sentimental, the gothic, and the ironic CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN via Bookforum WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE NARRATIVE MODE to capture...

“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” - Piet Hanema

“In Africa, you want more, I think.” With that laconic affirmation begins one of the strangest and most sublime American novels of the...

This week, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “strange to have come of age reading great novels of ambition, substance, & imagination...