"In a moment when so much contemporary fiction is concerned with redefining new conventions of realism or reasserting old ones, Oyeyemi is more interested in pushing past its boundaries altogether." Sarah Chihaya in Books and the Arts on Helen Oyeyemi thenation.com/article/cultur…

Our Charlie Parker Jazz Festival might not start until next week, but our partners have you covered from 8/17-8/25! Experience FREE events across the city celebrating jazz with film screenings, performances, after parties, and more. Visit CharlieParkerJazzFestival.org for more info!

Our annual FREE Charlie Parker Jazz Festival is back this weekend with jazz shows in Marcus Garvey Park on August 23 & 24 and Tompkins Square Park on August 25, plus free partner events across the city now through Sunday! Visit CharlieParkerJazzFestival.org for more info.

Our Fall Books issue is here—Nicolás Medina Mora on Rachel Kushner, Benjamin Kunkel on growth vs degrowth, lovia on Danzy Senna, Hannah Gold on Garth Greenwell, edna bonhomme, phd on Natasha Trethewey, bijan on hip hop's history, and Samuel Moyn 🔭 on the politics of equality:

“The novel’s status as a thriller is itself a deception, a sleight of hand, the outermost layer of a Russian nested doll of deceit...incredibly fun.” @TheNation raves about Rachel Kushner’s CREATION LAKE! thenation.com/article/cultur…

In "Creation Lake," Kushner transforms the genre's familiar plot twists and turns into a study of the many fictions we tell one another. bit.ly/4cIz5B2

"If Plato wanted us to step outside the cave of deceitful rhetoric and into the sunlight of transparent truth, Kushner makes an argument for stepping further in." Nicolás Medina Mora in Fall Books on the maze-like twists and turns of Rachel Kushner's new novel thenation.com/article/cultur…

It’s not just that Creation Lake is a fiction about a secret agent; it’s that the secrets this agent carries with her are often themselves fictions. thenation.com/article/cultur…

In Sally Rooney's latest novel, we get characters acting out their political commitments instead of just talking about them. But is their vision of domestic cooperation and familial love enough? bit.ly/3ZwyOyp

"Rooney’s previous novels were often criticized for the way her characters spent almost all of their time" talking about politics. "In Intermezzo…instead we get characters acting out their political commitments." Jess Bergman in Books and the Arts thenation.com/article/cultur…

Like her previous novels, Sally Rooney populates her latest, "Intermezzo," with plenty of friends and lovers. But her novel is also about something else too—the kinds of quiet revolutions that can take place in our personal lives. bit.ly/3ZwyOyp

Our October issue is out! It's packed with features, editorials, and essays including D.D.Guttenplan on how Pennsylvania could decide the fate of the election, g a b y on immigration as a lightning rod in American politics, Jess Bergman on Sally Rooney's new novel, reflections

In Rooney’s previous novels, her characters spend almost all of their time talking about politics and yet do very little of it. In Intermezzo, her protagonists act out their politics and yet leave open the question if that might still not be enough thenation.com/article/cultur…

In her 2019 Nobel Prize lecture, Olga Tokarczuk called for a new realism, “a sort of neo-surrealism” that goes “against the grain…of cause-and-effect.” That is exactly what she has done in her new novel. bit.ly/3BYKvEL

For Olga Tokarczuk, the Central European parable is not an alienating literary form but a way of finding a common formula for people’s otherwise disparate lives. bit.ly/3BYKvEL

For Olga Tokarczuk’s latest novel, "The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story," is a feminist noir reworking of Mann’s "The Magic Mountain." At times its genius even exceeds its model. bit.ly/3BYKvEL

For Olga Tokarczuk has long been recognized as one of the most important novelists in Poland since the Cold War. Her new novel makes clear that she is arguably one of the most important novelists writing today. bit.ly/3BYKvEL

I wrote about Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium – which I loved for its strangeness and irreverence – with thanks to David Marcus for the commission thenation.com/article/archiv…

[Stefan voice] This one has it all: NYPD corruption, Floyd Mayweather Jr., diamonds, Kim Kardashian, crypto, alleged Ponzi schemes, an enormous house with an in-ground trampoline. Issue no. 162 from Miranda Green, ALL THAT GLITTERS, is here. magazine.atavist.com/all-that-glitt…