‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ Is a Narcoleptic Triumph
Ottessa Moshfegh's unsettling, darkly funny new novel asks readers to wake up.
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PS Picks: ‘The Ambition Decisions’
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
How Higher Taxes Can Fight Inequality While Promoting Growth
Two new books on economic history and theory suggest the limits of the Austrian school—and the vital importance of progressive taxation.
How Beavers Can Save Us From Ourselves
The author discusses his new book about the original architect of the North American landscape: the beaver.
Why Are More Americans Reading Poetry Right Now?
The NEA reports an increased interest in poetry—but when we focus too much on numbers, we diminish the experience that makes poetry so vital.
Love Poems to a Troubled America
In his latest collection, the poet Terrance Hayes finds common ground with the many threats to our democracy.
Elizabeth Rush’s ‘Rising’ Is a Clarion Call on Climate
In her reported tour through American communities being threatened by rising seas, Rush reminds us of the human faces of the crisis.
‘This Book Kept Me Alive’: A Conversation With Porochista Khakpour
The novelist discusses her new memoir about living with Lyme, being a refugee, and the search for home.
‘We Are Desperately in Need of Seeing Ourselves’: A Conversation With Nicola Griffith
Griffith's new novel is a thriller that also helps dismantle the idea that disability is necessarily tragic.