Books

Maggie Nelson's meditation on a set of oxymorons: the pregnant woman who thinks, the mother who writes and the queer who procreates

The twin energies of ambition and anxiety seem to govern relations between the art and literary worlds

Two recent books explore how online trolling is reshaping publishing and communication

Spoken-word recordings can offer a liberating alternative, audibly melting text from the permafrost of print 

Re-reading Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex

A combination of memoir, fiction, art criticism and autobiographical reflection, The Story of My Teeth is a remarkable story about stories

Conversations, buildings, books and films

The dark, unsettling feminism of Jacqueline Rose

Gilda Williams’s new book on how to write about contemporary art

Who should the internet serve?

New technology and endangered objects

Omer Fast’s film adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s book, Remainder

Three new publications by artists catalogue the minutiae of contemporary existence

The artist and writer discusses the books that have influenced her

The myth of the ‘Great American Novel’

Two recent publications examine conflict and collaboration in public art projects

The act of writing and the ‘shadowy constitution of authorship’

Italian artist Linda Fregni Nagler discusses the books that have influenced her

Walking with Teju Cole

Reading as information control: the poet Tan Lin talks to Sam Thorne