
11 Stories About Isolation and Loneliness
Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz recommends books on disconnecting from society
Collections by Alexandra Chang, Kelly Link, Yiyun Li, and Jamel Brinkley are among the year’s finest books of short fiction
Walking away from the perfect ending gives me the freedom to write something real
"Replying All on the Death Announcement Email," creative nonfiction by Jenessa Abrams
These contemporary books illuminate the realities of the world for Black women in America
Gabrielle Bates, Sam Sax, Sally Wen Mao, and Edgar Kunz highlight a year of celebrated poetry collections
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright recommends stories about the shifting allegiances and power dynamics of a threesome
"Beyond Carthage" from THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy, recommended by Caoilinn Hughes
Maru Ayase’s novel "The Forest Brims Over" explores the gendered exploitation of being an artist's muse
Jiordan Castle's memoir-in-verse, "Disappearing Act," travels back in time to adolescence to the arrest that altered her family forever
Lee Matthew Goldberg recommends crime stories that subvert the expectations of the genre
In "The Vulnerables," a parrot without its owners, a trouble teen, and an older writer weather lockdown together