The Juliet Stories may appear to put its exotic foreign politics front and centre, but Carrie Snyder keeps most of the anti-imperialist rhetoric off-page.
The industrious-to-a-fault fact checker for the Believer magazine really had no idea what he was getting into when he volunteered to work on John D’Agata’s essay about suicide in...
Its vision of a postapocalyptic New York City, where teams of amateur soldiers roam the streets in search of any stray remaining undead, is foreboding and appropriately caked with...
Here’s our annual roundup of the books that struck us as outstanding this year—not exhaustive, not definitive, but an accurate thumbnail of what grabbed us and didn’t let go.