Books, Arts, and Culture

This was my first full year in New York, my first with a full-time job, and the first since college in which I signed a lease....

I began my year with Solmaz Sharif’s Customs. There is a line from the third poem in the collection, “Beauty,” that has popped in my head...

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is the most intellectually exciting book I’ve read in years, and I...

This was the year the “millennial novel” retreated in my consciousness. Not that I didn’t read compelling books by millennials: Boys Parts by Eliza Clark, Acts...

If you’ve dreamed your whole sentient life of writing a book, the year your debut novel is slated to come out feels like a banner one,...