With the arrival of February, it feels like 2020 is getting into high gear, for better or for worse. A cursory glance at the month’s most anticipated new books could best be described as eclectic: there are experimental and transgressive works here, along with career-spanning tomes and thematically ambitious works of fiction. If this is a harbinger of what the rest of the (literary) year looks like, it’s a good omen.
In our morning reading: thoughts on books by Lance Olsen and Steph Post, new fiction from Brandon Taylor, and more.
In our morning reading: thoughts on Lidia Yuknavitch’s new book, interviews with Paul Tremblay and Elle Nash, and more.
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Ocean Vuong and Melissa Febos, thoughts on the fiction of Marguerite Duras, and more.
In our morning reading: interviews with Tommy Orange and Leslie Jamison, revisiting “Nebraska,” and much more.
In our morning reading: Mairead Case on Pauline Oliveros, essays by Lidia Yuknavitch and Aaron Gilbreath, and more.
In our afternoon reading: nonfiction by Lidia Yuknavitch and Jason Diamond, Yahdon Israel in conversation with Jess Row, and more.
In our afternoon reading: Chiara Barzini and Annie DeWitt in conversation, new writing from Lidia Yuknavitch and Nathan Englander, and more.