Fiction
What Happened When Adele Spent £2 Million on a Hen Party Mash-Up In Ibiza?
We've interviewed absolutely everyone who saw her that weekend, to piece together a candid portrait of the biggest hen party since records began.
How to Write a Young Adult Novel About a Gay Kid Without It Being a 'Gay Book'
Justin Sayre's "Husky" approaches adolescent queerness as not just a form of attraction, but as an aesthetic.
I Got a Lesson in Gender Equality at a Romance Writers' Conference
I'd promised my editor a funny piece about the people who write and read romantic fiction, but what I found wasn't a joke.
New Zealand Just Banned a Book for the First Time in 22 Years
'Into the River' has been banned because of its depiction of drug use and underage sex. But author Ted Dawe feels it's a worrying example of the power of the country's conservative agenda.
Fan Fiction Is the Sexual Education I Gave Myself
When I was 13, pretty much everything I knew about sex was from fan fiction. And from what I could tell, it was awesome.
Alexandra Kleeman's Debut Novel 'You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine' Charts New Dystopian Territory
We met the novelist to talk about Philip K. Dick, roommate dynamics, and gender in paranoid, postmodern-y works.
Read a Story from Lucia Berlin's 'A Manual for Cleaning Women'
A story from the new collection by the great but not widely appreciated writer.
Read This Story by Clarice Lispector: 'Report on the Thing'
A new translation of the legendary Brazilian writer's meditation on the nature of time, the universe, Sweden, Pelé, and one electronic alarm clock that is so many things.
The Love Trip
When I was 19, I got a letter from Klaus Wouters. He worked as a handyman and music teacher at Silver Springs, a school for troubled kids in the San Gabriel Mountains. He knew (or guessed) I was still in Southern California.
'Soft Tagets,' by Christopher Bollen
Stefan didn't pay his half of the rent on time. It was like a game we played, or that he played and I was forced to go along with on the defensive.
We Ate a Shit-Ton of Hummus with Israeli Short-Story Writer Etgar Keret
Israel's greatest vegetarian short-story writer was in New York City—and he was hungry.
The New 50 Shades of Grey Book Tells Us Very Little About Male Sexual Fantasies
Narrated from the male perspective, 'Grey' is as much about pleasing female readers as the original '50 Shades.'