Absence Makes the Heart

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD ON CONSTANCE DEBRÉ’S NOVELS OF TRANSFORMATION

Ways of Seeing

LISA BORST ON NICHOLSON BAKER’S MEMOIR OF LEARNING TO DRAW

Sugar Rush

MELISSA ANDERSON ON THE LIFE OF WARHOL SUPERSTAR CANDY DARLING

KARAN MAHAJAN talks to linguist Ross Perlin

HANNAH ZEAVIN: Aaron Bushnell, protest, and pathology

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations

JOY WILLIAMS: Vladimir Sorokin’s Red Pyramid: Selected Stories and Blue Lard

ANGELO HERNANDEZ-SIAS: Justin Taylor’s Reboot

KATIE KADUE: Lucas Rijneveld’s My Heavenly Favorite

BECCA ROTHFELD: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Golden Pot and Other Tales of the Uncanny

HANNAH GOLD: Helen Oyeyemi’s Parasol Against the Axe

ZACK HATFIELD: Brad Gooch’s Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

GENE SEYMOUR: Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

HARMONY HOLIDAY: Paul Alexander’s Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year

LIZZY HARDING: Avril Horner’s Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

PHILIPPA SNOW: Grégoire Bouillier’s The Mystery Guest: A True Story and Sophie Calle’s True Stories: 66 Short Stories

MICHAEL ROBBINS: Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis

DAVID KLION: Joshua Green’s The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics

MOIRA DONEGAN: Lisa Selin Davis’s Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All And What to Do Instead

ANN MANOV: Lauren Oyler’s No Judgment