As life went even more digital during lockdown, the inversion we had been heading towards for over a decade was nearly complete: many of us in the West had gone from a life…
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Maria Stepanova’s sweeping meta-memoir, superbly translated by Sasha Dugdale, starts with her sifting through the “layered strata of possessions” in her aunt’s apartment after her death. As Stepanova considers photographs and…
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In Love Orange, her first novel, Natasha Randall, a literary translator of Russian authors (among them Gogol and Dostoevsky), sets out to satirize the digital age. It is pre-Trump America and the Tinkleys live…
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Affirmative consent, in which permission is to be ascertained for every step of sexual intimacy – either verbally or through non-verbal cues – became the standard on American campuses during Barack…
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As its title implies, We Are Not in the World inhabits a hazy purgatory—temporal, spatial and psychological. Heartbroken after the end of an affair with a married woman, Paddy dusts off…
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Hilary Leichter’s debut novel grew out of a short story published in the literary magazine n+1 in 2012. The gig economy and its attendant anxieties have only expanded since. “I have…