Not All of His Problems Are a Performance
An excerpt from MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar, recommended by Karen Russell
An excerpt from MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar, recommended by Karen Russell
New spooky stories to continue a queer tradition
Perla Kantarjian considers the immutable function of foodstuffs as poetic vehicles for home, identity, and belonging
Staff and contributors recommend their favorite book-length fiction of the year
There's still time to get these international gems onto your 2019 reading list
The author of "Death Is Hard Work" on the ongoing Syrian civil war and his life as a writer in Damascus
Disney's latest piece of myth-making about the Middle East is part of a long tradition
Roy Scranton’s War Porn and the contradictory truths of war narratives
A story of Twitter and racial metamorphosis