On the morning of October 21, Publishers Lunch announced that Catapult Books was being sold and would wind down operations by the end of the month. According to the Catapult Union, the company ...

Our review of Jane Schoenbrun's new book, "Public Access Afterworld." In the novel’s prologue, the unnamed first-person narrator explains, “This book is not my own.” It is, itself, a TV show, ...

An interview with Marlon James about his new novel, "The Disappearers" It’s been wild. The response to the book has been so massive and tremendous, and I’ve just been on the road. I was in South ...

I wasn’t sure about the difference between need and want in that moment, and I have no better grasp on it two decades later. The distinction doesn’t usually present itself to me anymore because I’m ...

If you took Classics 101 in undergrad, or if you’ve visited a Western art museum recently, The Rape of the Sabine Women might ring a bell. But you might be a little fuzzy on the details. After all, ...

Needlemouth, K-Ming Chang’s latest novel, is disturbing, uncanny, oppressive, and heavy. Young Cindy is at her grandmother’s house for the summer, accompanied by her cousins Mandy and Yangyang. Yet ...

Have you ever finished someone’s sentence, or voiced a thought that, to you, felt so singular, only to have the friend you’re talking to say, “I was just thinking the same thing!” The flurry of relief ...

Whalefall, directed by Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You), follows the story of Jay Gardiner, played by Austin Abrams (Resident Evil, Weapons), as he searches for the remains of his father, Mitt, ...

The Power of Telling Your Own Story in J Brooke’s “I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side” No God but Us tells the dual narrative story of ...

Twenty years ago, the members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever ...

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An interview with Dennis Lehane on his new novel, "Small Mercies." Though an all-white, fully autonomous School Committee had long bused thousands of Boston school children out of their neighborhoods ...