FICTION
Emma Cline Tells Louise Bonnet About Her Eerie Novel The Guest
May 16, 2023
“There is something monstrous about what we demand of women in terms of the outward performance of their gender.”
EXCERPT
The Late Sean DeLear Lives On in His Intimate Teenage Diaries
May 11, 2023
“I didn’t go to school today at all. I went to Hollywood and I was on the corner of Santa Monica and Vine and stuck out my thumb.”
BOOKS
Christopher Bollen and Will Chancellor Talk Fate and Fiction Over Chess
May 9, 2023
“If you read enough Agatha Christie, you can always figure out who the killer is.”
PLAGIARISM
R.F. Kuang on White Paranoia and the Pitfalls of Identity Politics
May 2, 2023
The “Yellowface” author reveals the sinister side of the publishing industry in her new satirical novel.
OPEN BOOK
Stephen Buoro Uncovers the Magic and Mysteries of Northern Nigeria
April 18, 2023
“Juicy ideas and memories often pop into my head when I’m in the toilet.”
HELLRAISER
Gary Indiana and Chris Kraus on Autofiction and Art World Fuckery
April 12, 2023
The literary legend talks to fellow writer and Semiotext(e) publisher about what you can and can’t say out loud in the current climate, and those gone but not forgotten.
PARADIS ICONS
A Taste of Paradis: Joan Didion, in Conversation with Mark Marvel
March 23, 2023
“I stopped doing description a long time ago. If I start describing something, I put myself to sleep at the type-writer.”
OPEN BOOK
Jinwoo Chong on Ling Ma, Prince Harry, and Curating High-Brow Bookshelves
March 21, 2023
“Prince Harry’s book was… fine.”
IN CONVERSATION
Tim Blake Nelson and Michael Stuhlbarg Search for the Essential Truths
March 20, 2023
“If I’m dying, I’m alive, in some sense.”
RAVE
McKenzie Wark on Raving and the “Gentrification of Ketamine”
March 15, 2023
“I don’t think a K-hole would be a good way to do an international flight.”
IN CONVERSATION
Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, Political Awakenings, and Being Replaced by Robots
March 1, 2023
“The world, as we understand it, becomes the world at the same time as California becomes California.”
ANTI
Meet Heavy Traffic, the Heavily Edited Alt-Lit Mag
February 17, 2023
“We don’t put on parties. We’re not a community beacon. But we are an imagined community.”
OPEN BOOK
Novelist Dizz Tate Writes One Thousand Words Before Getting Out of Bed
February 7, 2023
“Any book that someone has to italicize their enthusiasm for, like a good restaurant, should be in the canon.”
lit
Debut Novelist Delia Cai on Olive Garden, Central Places, and Interracial Relationships
February 6, 2023
The New York-based writer is turning flyover country into fiction.
OPEN BOOK
Novelist Kashana Cauley Is Sick of the Canon
January 11, 2023
“I’m a person who thinks newness is part of the joy of being alive.”
LIT
A Boy’s Own Story is Now a Graphic Novel. Edmund White Has Thoughts.
January 10, 2023
“In a real autobiography, I think your obligation is to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. I don’t like it.”