Tag: fiction

Columns

What Women Want

Kristen Martin

July 14, 2020

Two new novels probe the dangers of desiring more than your lot.

From Ellen Degeneres’s Most Distressing Guest to Equally Distressing Insta-star: The Rise and Rise of a Young Gorgon

Lily Watson

July 07, 2020

Short fiction by Lily Watson.

A Writer for the Masses

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

June 09, 2020

The illuminating hackwork of Cyprian Ekwensi.

Visiting Day

Asher Dark

May 29, 2020

Short fiction by Asher Dark.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

May 18, 2020

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.

A Pretty Penny

Jennifer Schaffer

May 13, 2020

Two new novels set in contemporary East Asia look unsparingly at wealth and beauty.

The Good Old Boy

Trevor Shikaze

May 08, 2020

Short fiction by Trevor Shikaze.

No Sleep till Auschwitz

Jeremy M. Davies

April 24, 2020

A short story by Jeremy M. Davies.

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.

Tenderoni

Selena Anderson

March 27, 2020

A short story by Selena Anderson

On The Pursuit of Human-Level Interestingness Value in AI₂-Generated Literary Textual Events

J.C. Hallman

February 14, 2020

A short story by J.C. Hallman.

Charity Believeth All Things

A. S. Hamrah

February 03, 2020

Last month, Semiotext(e) reissued Gary Indiana’s Depraved Indifference, originally published in 2001. Here is A.S. Hamrah’s introduction to the novel. We live in a time of exceptional, unprecedented grift, so much so that our era is turning the history of the United ...