Books

The prolific Beat poet, who died aged 86 on 25 October, left behind a powerful and ever-urgent call to action in her Revolutionary Letters

The author's new novel is a smart, sharply observed critique of literary tropes and the art world

‘Frog Pond Splash’, published 20 November by Siglio Press, presents four decades of the artist’s mail-art exchanges with poet William S. Wilson

A new publishing project misunderstands the anti-patriarchal motivations behind historical pen names

Revisiting the author’s prescient 'manifesto for a fair fight' - first published as an essay in 2014 - now out as a full-length book

The author of Glitch Feminism on correcting the cyberfeminist canon, the Black trauma at the root of memes and why online space is still ‘real’

In the author’s debut novel, ‘the threat of a sharp edge is on every page’ 

A bleak tale of a girl raised in isolation, ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ takes on new meaning amidst the current wave of lockdown narratives

‘Death in Her Hands’ toys with the conventions of crime fiction in ways that are often heavy-handed 

Learning to survive a jittering feed of survivalist pro tips and transhumanist dreck

Green unpleasant land? As the UK braces for election week, it might be time to abandon the myth of Englishness

The most remarkable thing about ‘The Mysterious Correspondent’ is the way it deals directly with gay and lesbian characters

Awarding the Nobel to a Milosevic apologist, splitting the Booker Prize, and the death of the Western canon’s most ardent defender: what is the political function of literary culture today?

Radical feminist Valerie Solanas is the ambivalent guiding force in Chu’s debut book Females

In ‘All That Beauty’, it’s not a matter of seeing better, or more clearly; it’s a matter of seeing more widely and wildly

‘Walking alone, he denied himself short-cuts in exemplary style’

The prolific Polish writer has a complicated relationship to nationality

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

The newly reissued novel maps the intimate spatial connections between fascism and patriarchy in postwar Austria

A new book wants to understand the individuals – and identities – beneath the ‘somewhat derogatory label’