Berghain Nights, Liam Cagney’s personal account of his love affair with Berlin and the techno that fuels the clubs with which the city is synonymous, feels like an answer to a question he’s been asking himself all his life.

In Muscle Man, Jordan Castro’s hilarious new novel, there are many things that its disgruntled protagonist Harold—the author of an acclaimed, if perhaps misunderstood, novel about a warrior born into a society that won’t allow him to embrace his exceptional vitality—despises.

Joe Sacco, the award-winning author, travelled to Uttar Pradesh in the years following the riots in an attempt to better understand how the Hindu and Muslim communities have since come to understand the events. I spoke with Joe recently about his thoughts on the ways politicians exploit differences and division for their own ends.

I don’t know that anyone needed a book about Keith McNally’s triumphs. There are streets you can walk down in Manhattan and see those. As its title suggests, I Regret Almost Everything is not that.

Maggie Armstrong has never felt that life comes naturally to her. What she has been blessed with instead, she seemed to suggest to me when we spoke recently over Zoom, was a propensity for calamity, hilarity, and drama. For a writer of literary fiction, I’d argue that there are few better gifts you could be blessed with than the capacity to make light of one’s suffering and the chops to make art out of it.