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Reboot emphasizes Justin’s reoccurring preoccupations—faith, fanaticism, utopia—and warps them into a genre-defying, video-game-inspired novel of the present. On a gorgeous spring day, I spoke with Justin on the phone about anarchy, the rewards of literary criticism, the lineage of a teacher, and Garielle Lutz.

Fashion retailers remain a top target of greenwashing lawsuits. Retailers are under scrutiny for their sustainability representations (discussed in our earlier legal alerts here) and...

And in the moment of me and my father, I see myself, I see my face in a tiny square in the corner of my phone and I’m flushed, I’m this red angry thumbprint listening and trying to think things through and waiting for it to all be over, and he’s in his bed holding the tablet or whatever they gave him at this terrible angle where I just get the underside of his chin and his hair splayed out on either side, it’s like the underside of his chin is a tiny featureless face jutting up out of th...

Our reviews editors put together eight virtual panels, each featuring the editors of several big fall titles in a given category or age range. Here, those editors tell us why their books stand out.

Sandi Tan on how she battles demons and performs exorcisms in her book, Lurkers, and elsewhere in her art.

Sandi Tan on how she battles demons and performs exorcisms in her book, Lurkers, and elsewhere in her art.

Email Address Anthony Veasna So walked into the n+1 office one very cold day in February 2018. I mean that literally: he just walked in, straight off the bus from Syracuse, preceded by an email of recommendation from his professor. It was an old-school arrival like something out of Balzac, or Tolstoy, at odds with Anthony’s utter contemporaneity and present tense-ness, but also totally on brand for someone who was unable and unwilling to distinguish between literature and life. In any case, i...