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It won’t surprise PopMatters readers that many of our best books of 2023 are excavations of our increasingly clamorous culture. It wasn’t a year for escapism.

A tribute to Song Kang Ho at the Academy Museum, plus paranoid thrillers at the New Beverly, a Jonathan Glazer series and behind the scenes with Beyoncé

This kaleidoscopic fictionalised memoir is a compelling chronicle of gentrification, filled with a melancholy humour

Would readers approaching this novel (although novel might not be precisely the right word) without any indication as to the authorship recognise it as the work of Jonathan Lethem? It doesn’t have kangaroo gangsters packing heat, or sentient miniature black holes, or marine drills converted into nuclear-powered limos. It is not set on an alien

In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by the novelist Jonathan Lethem. Two decades after his breakthrough book The Fortress of Solitude crowned Lethem the literary laureate of Brooklyn, he returns to the borough’s never-quite-gentrified streets with the new Brooklyn Crime Novel. He tells me why he felt the need to go back, and talks about race,

Edward Norton tried to get his old pals Radiohead to handle the soundtrack for The Incredible Hulk.

The letter failed to mention the 1,400 people in Israel that were killed and the kidnapping of 240 while claiming Israel was committing "crimes against humanity."

At the beginning of the millennium, acclaimed authors approached the page with swaggering authority. It’s a different world now.

In his new novel, the bard of Boerum Hill interrogates the brutal truths of gentrification.

The artists of the Eighties acted fast. They had to: there would be no future otherwise. But in battling the retrograde Reaganite look of the System, they knew they were its bastards nonetheless.