This year's best fiction illuminates feelings of alienation and belonging across various characters and settings, compelling readers to reflect on their own connections.
Even Losers Get Lucky Sometimes. Not in This Book.
Tulathimutte's 'Rejection' examines alienation and loneliness through vibrant, painful characters navigating modern digital culture.
Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel?
Rejection explores deeper themes of self-hatred and alienation beyond inceldom, employing dark humor to portray modern disconnection in relationships.
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2024
This year's best fiction illuminates feelings of alienation and belonging across various characters and settings, compelling readers to reflect on their own connections.
Even Losers Get Lucky Sometimes. Not in This Book.
Tulathimutte's 'Rejection' examines alienation and loneliness through vibrant, painful characters navigating modern digital culture.
Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel?
Rejection explores deeper themes of self-hatred and alienation beyond inceldom, employing dark humor to portray modern disconnection in relationships.
How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity
Lyric poets and mathematicians peak young, while composers, conductors, and philosophers display diverse trajectories. Charles Taylor, at 92, reveals exceptional productivity with "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment."
Teen-Age Alienation, on Display
The article explores the themes of alienation and identity in teenage girlhood as expressed through the works of Andrea Modica and Cookie Mueller.
"The Honest Island," by Greg Jackson
Craint experiences a profound sense of dislocation and identity crisis while exploring an unfamiliar island devoid of his memories.
How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity
Lyric poets and mathematicians peak young, while composers, conductors, and philosophers display diverse trajectories. Charles Taylor, at 92, reveals exceptional productivity with "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment."
Teen-Age Alienation, on Display
The article explores the themes of alienation and identity in teenage girlhood as expressed through the works of Andrea Modica and Cookie Mueller.
"The Honest Island," by Greg Jackson
Craint experiences a profound sense of dislocation and identity crisis while exploring an unfamiliar island devoid of his memories.
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory
Grollios critiques capitalism's distortion of human relationships, illustrating how economic systems undermine genuine connections and individual fulfillment.
Crossroads Offers the Most Idiosyncratic Films You'll See All Year
The article discusses avant-garde cinema's exploration of themes like alienation and societal critique through various short films.
The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka
On TikTok, young users are romanticizing Franz Kafka, creating fancam-style compilations, and relating to the author's themes of alienation and inner struggles.
Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney review portrait of a marriage adrift
Cathy Sweeney's debut novel, Breakdown, is praised for its economy of language and explores themes of domesticity, trauma, and alienation.
Sweeney's writing skewers a marriage that has run its course and touches on Ireland's repressive stereotyping of women and the worldwide climate catastrophe.
Juxtapoz Magazine - Kyle Dunn / MATRIX 194 @ the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
Kyle Dunn's paintings explore themes of intimacy, alienation, and the blending of public and private spaces through luminous domestic scenes.
The Agonies of Intimacy
Charles Burns is set to release two new books, showcasing his signature style of blending stylish and repulsive images in comics.