Preludes to a Kiss

AUDREY WOLLEN ON HELEN GARNER’S NOVELS OF DOMESTIC BLISS, DISRUPTION, AND DISGUST

Only Disconnect

LEO ROBSON ON J. M. COETZEE’S CONFLICTED ROMANTICISM

Rand Illusion

JUSTIN TAYLOR ON LEXI FREIMAN’S SATIRE ABOUT INFLUENCERS, ANTIFA, AND THE LOVE OF LITERATURE

NIKKI SHANER-BRADFORD interviews Lauren Elkin

KATIE KADUE on Julia Fox’s new memoir

BLAIR MCCLENDON: Teju Cole’s Tremor

MELISSA ANDERSON: Jeremy Cooper’s Brian

FIONA MAAZEL: Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams

AYESHA A. SIDDIQI: Zadie Smith’s The Fraud

COLTON VALENTINE: Justin Torres’s Blackouts

JANE HU: Sigrid Nunez‘s The Vulnerables

CARL WILSON: Sly Stone’s Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

ANN MANOV: Natasha Stagg’s Artless: Stories 2019–2023

PHOEBE CHEN: Yunte Huang’s Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History

AMBER HUSAIN: Sara Marcus’s Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis

MICHAEL W. CLUNE: Sasha Frere-Jones’s Earlier

HANIF ABDURRAQIB: Will Hermes’s Lou Reed: The King of New York

GRACE BYRON: Pippa Garner: $ell Your $elf

LAURA KIPNIS: Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory