Winter 2025 WINTER 2025 Archive FEATURES 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 INTERVIEW ARIANA REINES talks with Emily Witt NONFICTION 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
LIZZY HARDING: Carrie Courogen’s Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius