The Most Horrifying Look at Monsanto Yet

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 22, 2019 Samanta Schweblin has terrified readers across the globe precisely because she tells familiar stories we should all dread. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Political Education of Hunter S. Thompson

Peter Richardson / Truthdig Nov 2, 2018 Despite an embargo on his archive, a new biography examines how events between the Kennedy assassination and Nixon's resignation pushed the writer toward his most trenchant work. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Reluctant Rebel

Ron Charles Dec 15, 2017 Jonathan Swift, we need you now—when one constantly sees true stories prefaced with "Not from The Onion!"—more than ever. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Women Dominate 2017 National Book Awards

Emma Niles / Truthdig Nov 17, 2017 Almost all the winners of the prestigious literary prize, which honors the year's best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature, are women. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Viet Thanh Nguyen: What We Got Wrong About Vietnam (Audio, Transcript)

Staff and Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 20, 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and Truthdig's Robert Scheer discuss U.S. foreign policy and ignorance of Vietnamese culture. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Sour Hearts

By Elaine Margolin Aug 5, 2017 In Jenny Zhang’s debut collection of short stories, characters are filled with battle scars whose origins remain invisible. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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Rayyan Al-Shawaf / Truthdig Feb 27, 2017 In his new novel, Paul Auster manages to conjoin gimmickry and genius, as readers find their perspective radically altered by a detail unveiled at the end. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Avenue of Mysteries

By Ron Charles Nov 20, 2015 John Irving, now 73, asks in his 14th novel how a child becomes an adult storyteller, amid outrageous calamities somewhere between coincidence and fate. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Fortune Smiles

By Ron Charles Aug 28, 2015 The stories in Adam Johnson’s new collection are all set in an uncanny world you recognize but don't. From ravaged American cities to abandoned torture chambers, each one is a miniature demonstration of why Johnson won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

A God in Ruins

By Maureen Corrigan Jul 3, 2015 A new novel takes its place in the line of powerful works about young men and war, and recognizes the courage of those in war's aftermath, who are left to pick up the pieces. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing

By Nicholas Rombes, Two Dollar Radio Feb 25, 2015 "I, a lover of cinema, destroyed the films -- in nothing more than a shitty little garbage can, which is funny considering the can had no idea that its insides were being burned and scalded by the likes of Lynch and Antonioni and Deren and Jodorowsky.""I, a lover of cinema, destroyed the films—in nothing more than a shitty little garbage can, which is funny considering the can had no idea that its insides were being burned and scalded by the likes of Lynch and Antonioni and Deren and Jodorowsky." Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Women Still Not Published as Often as Men in Arts Publications, but Who’s Counting?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 25, 2014 VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released its much awaited annual pie charts Monday, demonstrating once again that the scales are tilted toward men when it comes to literary publications in the U.S. and U.K. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )