Books

A new collection of short stories by Maija Timonen asks: are we living in an age of emotional, as well as economic, austerity?

An analysis of the Uber redesign to Karl Ove Knausgård on Karl Ove Knausgård: our favourite online reads

A new book by Navid Kermani tracing a migration route into Europe but in reverse

What do you call musicians who write about themselves? Common, apparently

Three new books argue for the interconnectivity of all things

Diane Williams's latest collection, a new album from Matmos, and Jean-Luc Godard Season at the BFI

On the occasion of ‘I ♥ John Giorno’ in Paris, an interview with John Giorno about poetry, art and radicalism

A new book and exhibition explore a radical interwar collective: the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

Three new publications intimately concerned with difficult bodies

100 years ago, a group of artists gathered in Zürich and founded dada. A new book examines the under-valued role of women to this anarchic, wildly influential movement

On Hal Foster's Bad New Days: Art Critcism Emergency

Is it time to eschew the word 'criticism'?

A new collection of Robert Walser's little-known art criticism

Each approach is valid and necessary, but none alone is sufficient – especially in places undergoing rapid transition

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