Fiction

At the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Israeli-born artist’s newly commissioned, three-channel video and sound installation continues her career-long investigation into the visual language of messianic desire

In the work of Cooking Sections, Goldin+Senneby and Sean Raspet and Shengping Zheng the line between synthetic and organic is not always what is seems

In a new short story, Huw Lemmey responds to the themes of Camille Blatrix’s BMW Open Work project

Our lives – like menus – are an assortment of so-called ‘choices’

Remembering a poet who helped define a generation of American writers through his love of gossip, sex and art 

An event at Somerset House to launch Ignota Press’ first book, the anthology: Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry

A short story by novelist Wayétu Moore in response to Charles White

Andrew Durbin on Some Trick, an experimental collection steeped in the author's knowledge of classics and mathematics

The long-overdue publication of Susan Sontag's collected short fiction 

The books that have influenced Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang 

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

From Atatürk and Turkish nationalism in art to the enduring creepiness of Bruce Conner: what to read this weekend

The framing of art and life in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers

Chilean director Pablo Larraín discusses the merging of fact and fiction in his films

Are objects more real than words? Or, how poet and novelist Ben Lerner stopped being jealous and learned to love the virtual

An excerpt from Men and Apparitions, a novel in progress

A short story

We know about the last two decades, but what do the years between now and 2031 have in store?

Admonitions and Exhortations for the Cultural Producers of the early-to-mid-21st Century

Sam Thorne explores the esoteric work of writers who created fictional artists, from Paul Auster and Susan Sontag to Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust