This year’s Booker Prize longlist has been announced. All thirteen nominated authors have been nominated for the first time this year, and three authors are nominated for their debut books. The shortlist will be announced on April 8.
Online at the Paris Review this week: Lisa Carver’s diary of an ayahuasca retreat in Peru, excerpted from her forthcoming book Lover of Leaving. “Someone had told me that plant medicine is nature trying to protect itself by turning into a telephone with which it can let the humans know that they (plants) are alive and feeling and don’t want to die. But I’m already an animist.”
The Yale Review has published “An Angel Passed Above Us,” a new short story by László Krasznahorkai, translated by John Batki. In an interview with Hari Kunzru accompanying the story, Krasznahorkai reflects: “The apocalypse is a process that has been going on for a very long time and will continue for a very long time. The apocalypse is now. The apocalypse is an ongoing judgment.”
“If she allowed him a full kiss he might say something else ridiculous, perhaps about the fundamental strangeness of a ritual that involved touching tongues.” Bookforum contributor Justin Taylor, the author most recently of Reboot, has a new short story out in Granta.
Haley Mlotek, the author of No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce, has curated a series of films at Metrograph, including showings this week of Martin Scorcese’s The Age of Innocence, David Cronenberg’s The Brood, and Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman.