Books

Diarmuid Hester’s Nothing Ever Just Disappears and Robert Glück’s About Ed offer compelling portraits of the histories and intimacies of artists, writers and lovers who shaped the 20th century

Spanning stories, fragmentary essays and press releases, the author’s new collection veers between Joan Didion-esque social studies and pseudo-blasé reportage

In his new book, journalist Ed Gillett illustrates how the genre became intertwined with British conservative politics in a time of social division

A new translation of the writer’s rarest novel The Apple in the Dark is a revelation

The reissue of the 2001 collection considers the AIDS crisis through the lens of the Italian filmmaker

To celebrate the recent release of her memoir, The Lives of Artists, the author shares a list of literary works that have inspired her

A new memoir by Alexandra Auder delves into life with her parents, Warhol superstar Viva and artist Michel Auder

The writer's debut novel, set in an English boarding school, explores desire, gender identity and charged dynamics

Works from the poet’s forthcoming book Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return take on a life of their own

From new fiction by Isabel Allende to the first Bulgarian novel to win the Man Booker International, the frieze team recommend new favourites and future classics

Told from the perspective of a mountain lion, Henry Hoke's hallucinatory novel explores the polycrisis of Los Angeles's unhoused population, wildfires and political violence

Ahead of the release of her new memoir, The Light Room, the author shares a list of the literary works that have inspired her

In her new book, Sophia Giovannitti reflects on sex work as labour and its parallels to the art market  

In the novel, the unnamed narrator reckons with the politics of race, desire and marginalization in galleries and institutions 

In the author's new novel, encountering a doppelgänger on the streets of Athens signals the death of the diligently composed identity of an artist

On the occasion of his new book Catastrophe Time!, Gary Zhexi Zhang questions how we make sense of our era when history seems to speed by us

In essays covering Samuel Beckett to Tacita Dean, the writer reflects on irresistible artworks

A new book by Ian Penman grapples with the filmmaker’s gargantuan appetites, impossible productivity and heartbreaking melancholy

In the author's newly translated novel, an unnamed protagonist faces the limits and freedoms granted through speech

From César Aira’s visions of ancient Rome to a posthumous collection of strange tales by Izumi Suzuki, the frieze team selects the books they’re reading this season