“Alphabetical Diaries” by Sheila Heti contains a decade’s worth of thoughts, arranged in alphabetical order. The book is a chronicle of the self, of the fundamentals and idiosyncrasies of human experience, that plays out thrillingly in the space that Heti has staked out between life and art, reality and fiction.
“The Bee Sting,” a novel by Paul Murray, is about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person at the end of...
In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more enchanting. A lifelong student and observer of the...
Amy Bloom’s memoir, "In Love," asks: what are you willing to do for the one you love? And what is our own right to...
