Angela doesn’t like the therapist. Why are they talking about satisfaction when they could be talking about happiness?

“When I was about halfway between twenty and thirty, I lived in a large, run-down house that other people thought was romantic.”

“What happened next wasn’t that she recovered, but she did move to a new city, where she’d have to bump into life every day.”

“When Gilly was young, she lied to her diary.”

In Hilary Leichter’s “Terrace Story,” a woman has a secret superpower: she can expand cramped apartments with her mind.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Moons of Jupiter,” which was published in a 1978 issue of the magazine.

“ ‘I’ve refreshed the page a hundred times,’ she said. ‘What do I think is going to change?’ ”

The two of them live in a small apartment, small enough that it is impossible to ever be truly out of sight. In the room that is both the living room and the bedroom, there is a lofted bed.

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Her son and his future wife took Suzanne out to lunch and asked her to do the wedding invitations. Not so long ago, she had been a successful graphic designer. Her own boss. They were anxious to make...

Now that the pandemic is winding down, there are a lot of plans to make. Still, it’s the unplanned encounters that I miss most.

“Ignorance is good for desire.”

Clare Sestanovich investigates the interior spaces of Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Checkout 19.”...

Brandon Taylor interviews Clare Sestanovich about her new story collection about friendship, marriage, and female desire.

Published for the first time in the U.S., Marlen Haushofer’s prescient novel “The Wall” studies the flimsiness of the self in isolation.

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“A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment Weekly Fresh, intimate stories of women’s lives...

When the Mueller report was released in April 2019, you could buy it in bookstores

Clare Sestanovich’s debut collection of stories, Objects of Desire, begins with Iris, a young woman, flying home from college. “She is seated between a

A recently published volume of her correspondence is suffused with a sense of foreboding—portents of the looming tragedy that has come to define the poet’s legacy.

Whenever you start dating someone in Iceland, it is normal within the first weeks to check into your social security account on islendingabok.is (The Book of Icelanders), a genealogical database...

Obsessed with the body and its torments, the artist said that he wanted to strike the viewer’s “nervous system.”

Two satirical novels, Lucy Ives’s “Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; or, the Origin of the World” and Mona Awad’s “Bunny,” set in M.F.A. programs, challenge our ideas of literary authenticity.

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“Make Believe” by Clare Sestanovich, original fiction recommended by Electric Literature

Clare Sestanovich reflects on 2022 through the books she read.

For some reason, whenever I sit down to make this list of paperbacks coming out this month, Justin Timberlake’s 2006 hit always gets stuck in my head: We’re bringing paperback (yeah). *…

These collections include forays into a Dominican dictatorship, a tragic ferry accident in South Korea and polyamory.

For years, Emily Hale was the object of his longing and the source of his inspiration. Was the loss of their romance a boon for his poetry?