On Emily Witt’s smart and sometimes menacing study of 21st-century intimacy.

Tanya Agathocleous
Tanya Agathocleous is an associate professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (2011) and is working on a book about disaffection in colonial India.
Eat, Pray, Drive
The midlife-crisis novel is to contemporary literature what the coming-of-age novel was to 19th-century literature. The former picks up where the latter closes—after the happy ending. Both genres ...
Yorkshire Calling: An Interview with Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips is a British writer, born in St. Kitts. He has authored and edited a wide range of works, including plays, screenplays, documentaries, and non-fiction. His novels, with geographies ...