The Interpretation of Screams
Maggie Nelson’s new book examines how we express and interpret pain
Lumberjack Flash
A story collection finds multiple ways to explore and explode gender identity
Front Lines
Peter Weiss’s literature of revolt
Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors
a sumptuous new exhibition catalogue, Toronto-based art star Kent Monkman (Fisher River Cree)
Rebel with a Clause
A career-spanning collection of Lynne Tillman’s digressive, renegade fictions
Libertine Angst
Nettie Jones’s classic novel of debauchery, entrapment, and escape
Between the Acts
Katie Kitamura closes her trilogy with a novel about theater
The Sky’s Gone Out
Peter Hujar’s everlasting portraits of writers, artists, and mortal remains
THE R. CRUMB STORY
What on earth happened to this family?
Who by Fire
Ariana Reines’s art of anguished witnessing