The unnamed narrator of Black Bag, an out-of-work actor living in London, has finally landed himself a role, and it’s a doozy. Advertised on the “admirably candid” website strange-acting-jobs.org, the role demands... Read more »
Making the comic novel succeed is a rich, tricky project in our age of desperate, sometimes weirdly eager apocalypticism. Madeline Cash has spotted that a combination of tenderness and satire may be precisely... Read more »
The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolfâs Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Saxâs incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
Eric Hazan, a lifelong Parisian who died in June, wrote several books about his hometown, with a particular focus on the class politics of the built environment. In Balzacâs Paris he revisits... Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with... Read more »
In “Life with Spider,” your story in this week’s issue, a young man named Fletcher encounters a creature with six legs, jet-black skin, and no eyes, ears, or mouth. This is Spider,... Read more »