Cover of Winter 2025

WINTER 2025

The Azrael World

AUDREY WOLLEN ON JOY WILLIAMS’S STORIES OF ANGELS, DEMONS, AND THE FATE OF HUMANITY

Reader, I Divorced Him

HERMIONE HOBY ON NARRATIVES OF MARRIAGE AND ITS DISSOLUTION

You Can’t Go Home Again

JESSI JEZEWSKA STEVENS ON ÁGOTA KRISTÓF’S CONFOUNDING FICTIONS OF EXILE

FICTION AND POETRY

BECCA ROTHFELD: Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama, The Silentiary, and The Suicides

RACHEL MONROE: Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft: 10th Anniversary Edition

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Elfriede Jelinek’s The Children of the Dead

MELISSA ANDERSON: Jane DeLynn’s In Thrall

JAMIE HOOD: Virginie Despentes’s Dear Dickhead

DAVID KURNICK: Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings

ARIANA REINES talks with Emily Witt

ANDREW CHAN: Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard

ANAHID NERSESSIAN: John Kelsey’s I Forget

DAVID O’NEILL: Alec Soth’s Advice for Young Artists

LIZZY HARDING: Carrie Courogen’s Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

HARMONY HOLIDAY: Brandon Shimoda’s The Afterlife Is Letting Go

SASHA FRERE-JONES: David Graeber’s The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

GENE SEYMOUR: Philip Freeman’s In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor

IAN VOLNER: Architecture. Research. Office.

MARY TURFAH: Isabella Hammad’s Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

REBECCA ARIEL PORTE: Marguerite Young’s Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias