Kristen Roupenian
The Art of the Robocall
“Lennox Mutual,” a one-on-one immersive theatrical experience, raises questions about performance, A.I., and corporate culture.
When a Novelist Carries On What Another Novelist Started
Elizabeth Hand’s “Haunting on the Hill” is an authorized follow-up to a Shirley Jackson classic. But haunting someone else’s house comes with perils as well as perks.
A Shape-Shifting Short-Story Collection Defies Categorization
Kelly Link’s postmodern fairy tales make the case for enchantment.
When a Novel Reimagines a Nation
Patrice Nganang’s Cameroon trilogy challenges the capacities of literary fiction with the turbulent complexities of his home country.
The Impact of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize
His beautiful, sensory novels are enlivened by streams of literary influence from outside the English-speaking world.
Personal History
The Author, the Work, and the No. 1 Fan
Writing didn’t serve the purpose I wanted it to, which was to fix the fundamentally broken relationship between myself and other people.
A Photographer’s Intimate Self-Portrait of Womanhood in Middle Age
Elinor Carucci’s pictures literalize the impulse to magnify a tiny part of oneself until it is wildly out of proportion and, in doing so, make that impulse seem not shallow or vain but simply human.
What It Felt Like When “Cat Person” Went Viral
Here’s the thing about my story’s second life as an Internet Sensation: its status as fiction had largely got lost.
The Scariness of Knocking on a Stranger’s Door While Canvassing
When you spend most of your time surrounded by friends, encountering hostility mostly online, it’s shocking how viscerally frightening it is to come into close contact with people who dislike you.
The Art of the Robocall
“Lennox Mutual,” a one-on-one immersive theatrical experience, raises questions about performance, A.I., and corporate culture.
When a Novelist Carries On What Another Novelist Started
Elizabeth Hand’s “Haunting on the Hill” is an authorized follow-up to a Shirley Jackson classic. But haunting someone else’s house comes with perils as well as perks.
A Shape-Shifting Short-Story Collection Defies Categorization
Kelly Link’s postmodern fairy tales make the case for enchantment.
When a Novel Reimagines a Nation
Patrice Nganang’s Cameroon trilogy challenges the capacities of literary fiction with the turbulent complexities of his home country.
The Impact of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize
His beautiful, sensory novels are enlivened by streams of literary influence from outside the English-speaking world.
Personal History
The Author, the Work, and the No. 1 Fan
Writing didn’t serve the purpose I wanted it to, which was to fix the fundamentally broken relationship between myself and other people.
A Photographer’s Intimate Self-Portrait of Womanhood in Middle Age
Elinor Carucci’s pictures literalize the impulse to magnify a tiny part of oneself until it is wildly out of proportion and, in doing so, make that impulse seem not shallow or vain but simply human.
What It Felt Like When “Cat Person” Went Viral
Here’s the thing about my story’s second life as an Internet Sensation: its status as fiction had largely got lost.
The Scariness of Knocking on a Stranger’s Door While Canvassing
When you spend most of your time surrounded by friends, encountering hostility mostly online, it’s shocking how viscerally frightening it is to come into close contact with people who dislike you.