Books

Emily Witt's latest book offers a new approach to sexology 

Charlie Fox on a new translation of Hervé Guibert's chronicle of love, lust and drug-addled longing

An exclusive excerpt from Charlie Fox's new book, This Young Monster, published today by Fitzcarraldo Editions

From the Jannis Kounellis work that nobody wanted to Andrew Motion's defence of sane poets: what to read this weekend

Author and poet Susan Stewart's new book shows her abiding concern with lyric

Could online communication provide a new model for contemporary writing? Patrick Langley on two debut novels from George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin

Dan Fox pays tribute to the life and work of a writer, theorist, cultural commentator, and friend, who passed away last week

Tom Overton reflects on the life of a great storyteller with contributions on his art criticism, broadcasting and fiction

The re-release of Allan Sekula’s seminal book critiquing the bond between capitalism and representations of material culture

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review

A form of mental illness or a cultural norm that has shapeshifted over time?

A report from 'Inside', an Artangel project staged in the Reading prison that once held Oscar Wilde

The second of three articles exploring art, class and precarity: an interview with writer and sociologist Didier Eribon

A new book of photographer Luigi Ghirri's collective writing

Thoughts on John Berger’s prose as he turns 90

A new anthology of writing by Lynne Tillman shows us what narrative fiction, and criticism, can be

The books that have influenced the publishing collective

Donna Haraway takes on the Anthropocene

Following the recent New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Dan Fox profiles three independent publishers

A new shape-shifting publication by the Milanese collective Gasconade