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Byline: Lauren Oyler Use Your Hands How Maylis de Kerangal turns work into writing. At the beginning of Maylis de Kerangal's novel 'Painting Time,' which was published in French in [...]

In ''Diary of a Void,'' Emi Yagi unravels the limitless ironies of maternity. DIARY OF A VOID, by Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North Blame it on [...]

THE STARTUP WIFE By Tahmima Anam EDGE CASE By YZ Chin Start-ups: We know they're bad for politics, culture, workers, restaurants, sex, dating, fashion, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, local languages [...]

There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside. For several years I [...]

HAVING AND BEING HAD By Eula Biss On the front of my laptop, I have a sticker that reads ''NEVER WORK.'' Unfortunately, it's not big enough to obscure the Apple [...]

UNCANNY VALLEYA MemoirBy Anna Wiener At first, I didn't understand why I was asked to review ''Uncanny Valley,'' Anna Wiener's memoir about working for Bay Area start-ups in the 2010s. [...]

There's a ubiquitous joke on Twitter that goes like this: ''Sir, this is an Arby's.'' That sentence is the punch line, deployed after a setup in which an earnest speaker [...]

Byline: Lauren Oyler Sex Ed How to read Andrea Dworkin. tifIllustration by Golden CosmosFor Dworkin, male domination determined everything, including language itself.68 Apologies to Andrea Dworkin, who did not like [...]

Watching the Netflix show ''Dating Around'' is like sitting next to a Tinder date at a bar: The possibility that something outrageous, sexy or at least interesting will happen holds [...]

WHERE REASONS END By Yiyun LiNear the beginning of Yiyun Li's elliptical new novel, ''Where Reasons End,'' the unnamed narrator describes the difficult task she has set for herself in [...]

Who or what is responsible for sexual assault? Is it the individual who commits it? Or is it the atmospheric conditions that make the individual think he or she can [...]

About a year ago I met up for the first time with a woman I knew only online. Articulate and funny, she is a brilliant writer who studied literature in [...]

LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST By David Szalay 352 pp. Graywolf. Paper, $16. Paul Rainey is a loser. The protagonist of David Szalay's first novel, ''London and the South-East,'' Rainey leads [...]

NATASHA LYONNE was reclining in the dark at the Lower Eastside Girls Club--secret home to 'the best planetarium on Avenue D'--as an intergalactic narrator reassured us that we humans are [...]

A friend recently told me about an apartment in Berlin where you can get a geography lesson while using the toilet. The bathroom has a window covered in a frosted [...]