Family

A story collection about parenting in a post-apocalyptic world.

Excerpted from the memoir, Negative Space

In this short story, an artist father and his son, an art critic, have a dramatic and telling confrontation at a gallery opening.

“Each time they told me to smile I felt at risk for oblivion, as if it wasn’t me that they were looking at but, rather, some bright reflection of themselves, some aspiration gnarled against their own self-perception.”

The filmmakers question the conventions of documentation with work that seeks transparency and authenticity outside of the fiction–nonfiction dichotomy.

Wainwright talks about his tenth studio album, the “anemic” state of pop lyrics, and why Leonard Cohen—not Bob Dylan—should have won the Nobel Prize.

The debut writer on how vignettes became a novel, bodies as objects, and why discomfort is comfortable to read.

The writer on writing about secrets, food as love language, and releasing a debut novel during a pandemic.

On writing secondhand trauma, cycles of behavior, and the loneliness of internalized homophobia.

I like when words fail. It shows we don’t believe / we totally know. Name a plant in a forest // and you think you know it. That name / to a bird or a dog, that sound is a squawk.

A uniquely vile cast of characters, ecological disaster, and a motherless daughter who finds strength in the unexpected.

Mapping personal attachment styles onto art institutions.

The German filmmaker discusses her reductive approach.

The poet’s new collection of essays, Minor Feelings, threads intense friendships, “bad” English, and standup comedy into a meditation on the Asian-American experience.

The writer on creating a legend about her mother, breaking the fourth wall, and Elena Ferrante’s honesty.

The author on her latest novel about family secrets, New Orleans, and characters waiting for their stories to be told.

The boy who is coming home with part of himself missing is the man’s nephew. The man, Silas, receives the news and hangs up the phone, numb. He wants a drink. He doesn’t want a drink. He wants time to move backward.

The writer on her new novel, how Dominicans have shaped New York City’s culture, and creating artistic spaces that are truly liberating.

On his new collection of poetry, I Will Destroy You, the book that emerged from choosing not to write.