The 2022 publication of A Hunger, Ross Raisinâs fourth novel, was his âlowest momentâ, the 45-year-old author says. âIt was a deflating experience.â The book received positive reviews, but then Raisin found... Read more »
The narrator of Eliza Barry Callahan’s “The Hearing Test” is an artist in her late twenties named Eliza who lives in New York City. She wakes up one morning in August with... Read more »
A novel with the title “Martyr!” arrives on the scene preloaded and explosive. The word is fraught, even more so now than when the book’s author, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar,... Read more »
In 2021, Jack Chadwick, a twenty-seven-year-old barman and part-time go-go dancer, was browsing the shelves of the Working Class Movement Library, outside Manchester, when he spied an arresting book cover. The hand-drawn... Read more »
Monica Heisey The author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen Sondheim My favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed... Read more »
Sally Rooney: In the middle of November, as the catastrophe in Gaza intensified, I was asked to take part in a public event with the British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad. We were invited... Read more »