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Saul Leslie’s A Working Title I Want to Change, a satire about the British supermarket chain Tesco, joins a spate of recent novels about people trying to survive the gig economy.

Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels have found a new language to evoke the often circular, abstracted nature of human consciousness.

There are shades of JG Ballard in this tale of survival in a decaying metropolis, but big ideas and lengthy exposition crowd out the human drama

Following the death of his wife, a critic-teacher takes a job with an art-washing multinational, in a cinematic novel that is full of ideas

Shortlisted for the Women’s prize, this story of a writer’s infatuation with an older woman begins with bracing verve

Sharp’s deadpan debut reads like a gen Z update on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playfully skewering modern literary tropes

Mariska Hargitay has extended her starring run in Broadway's Every Brilliant Thing by a week, and will now play at the Hudson Theatre through July 5.

From The Christian Science Monitor | All stories: Astute ‘Transcription’ asks readers, ‘Do you copy?’

Debut novelist Avigayl Sharp discusses Nabokov, sincerity, and writing trauma without revealing it in “Offseason”

Ben Lerner’s dazzling new novel, Transcription, plays variations on the conflicts and bonds that are felt among three generations.

Can we shed the bonds of bourgeois morality and look self-annihilation in the face?

The feverish interiority of a young woman abroad is captured with offbeat wit and disarming candour in the first novel from the translator of Butter

Vigdis Hjorth’s project carries the psychological signature of autobiography—while actively disavowing the genre.

By channeling the Delphic spirits of his mentors, Lerner manages to avoid heavy-handed commentary in favor of stranger pursuits: finding the sense and nonsense in natural speech; intersplicing shards of citation and quotation; and contesting the very…

From Thebaffler RSS Feed: A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great …

Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in Paris