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Five Beach Reads for June, Wherever You Are
In my first edition of this monthly column, I laid some ground rules. The books I choose will always be written by women, and they’ll always be the kinds of books you can sink into when you’ve got the...
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On the Murder of Bloggers, and Bangladesh’s Greatest Living Writer
It’s a strange time to read a novel about Bangladesh. “Bangladesh says it now knows who’s killing the bloggers,” a New York Times headline blared this month, announcing a putative end to the mystery of...
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Junot Diaz: On My Way to the Novel, I Fell in Love with the Short Story
The following is the introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2016. I’ve spent past 20 years reading and writing short stories—which, given some careers, ain’t all that much, but it is more than...
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10 Contemporary Novels By and About Muslims You Should Read
What should you read when your president-elect is an unrepentant xenophobe who wants to ban Muslims from America? Well, lots of things, of course, but here’s a more pointed suggestion: read more books...
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Announcing the 2017 O. Henry Prize Stories
We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2017, edited by Laura Furman, which will appear in an eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor. “Too Good To Be True” by Michelle...
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Esmé Weijun Wang, Danielle Evans, and Aaliyah: the week’s most exciting book...
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and...
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Poetry, Prose, and the Climate Crisis: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on...
In this episode, poet and editor John Freeman talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about his second collection of poetry, The Park. Freeman discusses...
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To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a...
Rose Lanam is the name of my alter ego. I conjured her up in order to write my new novel, The Startup Wife, my fourth book and my first comedy. Early on, as I was dreaming of this book, I realized I...
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Tahmima Anam on the Marriage of Rom-Com and Satire
This week on The Maris Review, Tahmima Anam joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, The Startup Wife, out now from Scribner Book Company. * On the countercultural myth of startup culture: MK: The...
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81 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2021
Two years and running. The changed world in which we’re living has stayed altered, and in 2021 the quiet of lockdowns was exchanged for different silences—of mourning; of a steady, grinding...
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