Books

The artist reveals the books that have influenced him 

The long-overdue publication of Susan Sontag's collected short fiction 

Hito Steyerl’s Duty Free Art and A Field Guide to the Snowden Files

Founders of the Book Society in Seoul, Helen Ku and Lim Kyung Yong, talk about the origins of their bookshop and publishing house

Virginie Despentes's trilogy, 'Vernon Subutex', and the revival of state-of-the-nation novels 

The books that have influenced Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang 

Chris Kraus’s biography of the first female ‘Great Writer as Countercultural Hero’

As a new biography of the author is published, revisiting Kathy Acker's writing on literature, logic and the libido 

From being citizens to lovers, the most important things in life can’t be professionalized. Is it time for some politically-directed amateurism?

An interview with the late artist on the unique classification system he devised to organize his books

A swathe of exhibitions and a new English translation of La Monnaie vivante, Pierre Klossowski’s erotic theory of economics

From why its good to repeat jokes to how to keep it impersonal: what to read about this weekend

Writer Hari Kunzru speaks about his new novel, White Tears, a timely reflection on race, class and cultural appropriation in the US

Emily Witt's latest book offers a new approach to sexology 

Charlie Fox on a new translation of Hervé Guibert's chronicle of love, lust and drug-addled longing

An exclusive excerpt from Charlie Fox's new book, This Young Monster, published today by Fitzcarraldo Editions

From the Jannis Kounellis work that nobody wanted to Andrew Motion's defence of sane poets: what to read this weekend

Author and poet Susan Stewart's new book shows her abiding concern with lyric

Could online communication provide a new model for contemporary writing? Patrick Langley on two debut novels from George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin

Dan Fox pays tribute to the life and work of a writer, theorist, cultural commentator, and friend, who passed away last week