BOOK REVIEWS
This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor, The Nation
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, 4 Columns
The A.V. Club
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
You’re on an Airplane by Parker Posey
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Answers by Catherine Lacey
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George
OTHER CRITICISM
The A.V. Club
Hitting below the belt: Succession’s heated volley of sexualized insults
With Parquet Courts’ new album comes a reminder of their most undervalued talent
With City So Real, the director of Hoop Dreams lets Chicago speak for itself
Elizabeth Olsen made her big debut as frazzled cult survivor Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Oscar-nominated In the Bedroom fleshed out a troubling short story
With the exquisite Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola captured the novel’s complex nostalgia