Literature

Released this month, Jhumpa Lahiri's new book explores her relationship with the Italian language as a writer and translator

In three stories, the German filmmaker and writer bears witness to the tentativeness of history

The author of Glitch Feminism on correcting the cyberfeminist canon, the Black trauma at the root of memes and why online space is still ‘real’

The authors discuss diary-keeping, photography and motherhood

Before Twitter, Félix Fénéon’s daily ‘novels in three lines’ made a literary art form of current affairs

Juliet Jacques speaks to the pioneering writer and theorist about her new book, ‘Reverse Cowgirl’, an ‘auto-ethnography’ of the self

Wandering Munich with the graphic designer Anna Lena von Helldorff, the author wonders what it means when time constantly overtakes us

The translator of the Nobel Literature Prize winner on jet lag, death threats and insomnia in Poland

The most remarkable thing about ‘The Mysterious Correspondent’ is the way it deals directly with gay and lesbian characters

Nina Leger, Jenny Hval, Elvia Wilk and Sophie Mackintosh offer an eerie counterpoint to the traditionally male-dominated genre of weird literature

In ‘All That Beauty’, it’s not a matter of seeing better, or more clearly; it’s a matter of seeing more widely and wildly

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

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

The newly reissued novel maps the intimate spatial connections between fascism and patriarchy in postwar Austria

Three new novels – by Annie Ernaux, Vigdis Hjorth and Ocean Vuong – attempt to salvage something from painful intimate memories

In ‘Coventry’, events seem to happen to somebody else, to a person Cusk repeatedly exposes and judges

Reckoning with the legacy of Jim Harrison, whose writing portrayed women like meals – meant to give pleasure and comfort, without having any hunger themselves

Like Vivian Maier’s photography, Christina Hesselholdt’s novel embraces digression and relishes humanity in its multiplicity

 ‘We have lost one of the best and greatest of us,’ Keene writes. ‘She helped us to see and become ourselves, to put pen to paper and language to our lives.’

Diana Hamilton reflects on the dual urges to be beautiful and well-reviewed – even when you want to reject both desires