Books
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Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments By Gina Perry | New Press | September 3 We all think... More >>
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"How angry am I? You don't want to know," begins the gripping first chapter of Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs (Knopf). The... More >>
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Rachel Kushner was the girl who spent her teens sneaking onto the backs of motorcycles in California. Today, a couple of decades later, she's the... More >>
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It's March, but a zigzag of skiers still winds its way down Corkscrew, Aspen Mountain's double-black-diamond run. This is the view from Justice... More >>
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King of Cuba By Cristina García, May 21 Set partially in modern Havana, García's sixth novel offers a profane, rollicking sendup... More >>
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No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales... More >>
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What happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson? Welcome to Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, a... More >>
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“Authors are just notoriously difficult,” says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane’s story “How to Become a... More >>
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Chief among the dark oddities of life in 18th- and 19th-century London is that the city, which produced so many dead, was itself forever in want... More >>
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David Shields did it, again. He killed the novel. But it's less painful than it sounds. In How Literature Saves My Life, his eleventh book and... More >>
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Elizabeth Hand's Errantry, Jon Peterson's history of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing gamesIn an age when the price of a movie ticket can get you three hours of hang-time in Middle Earth, fantasy worlds aren’t exactly at a... More >>
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Jump right into the New Year by celebrating the new issue of New York-based literary magazine n+1 at McNally Jackson on January 3. Issue number... More >>
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Voice writers offer their picks from the yearIf the book is in crisis, we didn't notice on our end. 2012 saw a ton of new offerings. Our scribes select a batch of the ones they liked... More >>
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The biographer reads at Book Court on Thursday with Rob SheffieldIf there's a ghost fifth member of the Smiths, it might be Tony Fletcher. The 48-year-old British author, who's written biographies about Keith... More >>
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Plus Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for TranswonderlandIt's not an insult to the work of Annemarie Schwarzenbach that many readers, in the decades since her death in 1942, have found her writing not... More >>
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Moderated by Amy Wheeler, the discussion is curated by She Writes and Hedgebrook Writers RetreatOn Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m., Cobble Hill's BookCourt (this year's Best Of New York winner for best bookstore) will host a panel discussion... More >>
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The entertainer's shelf helps boost your festive spiritsTake away the gift giving, the cheesy music, the elaborate window displays, and a few fleeting days off from work, and what do the holidays leave... More >>
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Books by Andri Snær Magnason, Wendy Guerra, Rosa Montera, and Paul ElieA laugh-out-loud apocalypse, a daft two-against-the-world love story, and a slashing yet humane science-fiction satire of our faith in corporate... More >>
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Plus, a few words about BrooklynJami Attenberg’s latest novel, The Middlesteins, travels through the life of Edie Middlestein, a once portly child, now obese adult, thrown... More >>
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British Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh's debut novel Out of It tells the story of Rashid and Iman, twins from Gaza. While Gaza is being bombed,... More >>
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James Wolcott dropped out of college and left Maryland in 1972 with eyes full of literary dreams and a letter of recommendation from Norman... More >>
From the Print Edition
Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations
For a young artist whose past works include videos of herself dancing in her underwear with middle-aged men who have picked her up in parking lots, Laurel Nakadate's current exhibition,… More >>
Reasons to Be Happy, in which Neil LaBute May Hate Inanimate Objects
A box of ice cream sandwiches suffers a vicious assault in Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, produced by MCC. As does a vending machine, a sports trophy, a microwave,… More >>
Are you sitting comfortably? Then you are not attending Cora Bissett's Roadkill, a site-specific screed against human trafficking produced by St. Ann's Warehouse, in which attendees share a minibus bound… More >>
Composer-lyricist Matt Sax loves hip-hop. He also loves Shakespeare. These enthusiasms unite—not always smoothly—in Venice, a rap and pop musical loosely tied to the tragedy of Othello, but more concerned… More >>
Forget potty-training, teenage drama, and the SATs: as any discerning New York parent knows, the trickiest part of child-rearing is getting your offspring into the elite kindergarten of your choice.… More >>
Le Corbusier's Paper Utopias
"You must be sympathetic to man's condition in his environment," the modernist architect Le Corbusier said in a 1957 film. "That's what interests me, and I've found in painting a… More >>
John Guare Looks to the East in 3 Kinds of Exile
At 75, many a man might reasonably think of retirement. Instead, John Guare has embarked on a fresh career. In 3 Kinds of Exile, the portmanteau play at Atlantic Theater,… More >>
Lively Speech Buoys Somewhere Fun
The playwright Jenny Schwartz savors words the way a more indolent person might gorge on bonbons—delighting in language's sound, shape, and scrumptious connotations. In Somewhere Fun, the dreamlike three-act play… More >>
Good Television: Battling to Maintain Integrity on Reality TV
When Rod McLachlan's smart, passionate play Good Television begins in the offices of Rehabilitation, a cable show that bears a strong resemblance to A&E's Intervention, you may draw a breath,… More >>
The Tutors School Some Tough (and Trite) Lessons
In Erica Lipez's The Tutors—now playing at Second Stage Uptown, directed by Thomas Kail—a trio of earnest young pedagogues gets schooled in some tough (and somewhat trite) life lessons. Former… More >>
