Books

In Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, two women repudiate the long-held expectation: get a husband, make babies

In our devotion to computation and its predictive capabilities are we rushing blindly towards our own demise?

With a republished collection of her writing by David Zwirner Books, the Italophile critic is shown to be as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent

How designers are exploring the subject’s elemental role as an agent of political and social change

Publishing elegant, peculiar studies in fine attention and finer craft, how the small London press is producing some of the best writing around

Dolphins, ketamine and leaky realities: Mark Pilkington considers Altered States, 40 years after its release

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

Provincial landscapes mask creeping violence in three new novels by Emma Glass, Sophie Mackintosh and Fiona Mozley 

Everybody’s favourite underpaid, over-educated, raven-haired art critic, Rhonda Lieberman, is as relevant as ever

With his new book How to Write an Autobiographical Novel published today, the writer shares the books that have influenced him

Now out from Rizzoli, a new book collects the collages of the recently-deceased poet and erstwhile art critic

Gazumped by John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, a story of Dustbowl climate refugees who rise up against their oppressors

Andrew Durbin on Some Trick, an experimental collection steeped in the author's knowledge of classics and mathematics

Why have women been written out of internet history?

Eileen Myles’s new memoir of her dog has much to say about being human

Patrick Grainville's new novel, Cliff of Fools, captures the life of the artist as vividly as his own canvases

The intertwined imaginations of Anthony Powell and Nicolas Poussin

At a time of #metoo fearlessness, a collection of female critics interrogate their own fandom for music’s most celebrated sexists

From credit scores to algorithmic policing, Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism reveals technocracy as not merely analytical, but predictive

A new collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin casts a new light on an otherwise overlooked writer