Books & Fiction: The Voice That Gets Lost Online ⋆ GUIA BARCELONA FRIKI

Patricia Lockwood’s and Lauren Oyler’s extremely online novels. Plus: living in New York’s unloved neighborhood, and Sally Rooney.
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The Extremely Online Novels of Patricia Lockwood and Lauren Oyler

The Internet gave us a new language. Did it take one away?

By Alexandra Schwartz

Essays & Criticism

Profiles

Glennon Doyle’s Honesty Gospel

The best-selling memoirist wants women to tell the truth about their lives.

By Ariel Levy

Personal History

Living in New York’s Unloved Neighborhood

A nameless section of Manhattan resembles the nineteen-seventies city that’s been romanticized in the movies. But do we really want to live in “Taxi Driver”?

By Rivka Galchen

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Cultural Comment

The Age of Peak Advice

There is often something disappointingly unambitious at the heart of “literary” advice columns these days, tiny fixes wrapped up in lush language.

By Jamie Fisher

PAID POST

2021 Caldecott Medal Winner and New York Times Bestseller

Powerful. Stunning. Hopeful. From Indigenous author-illustrator team Lindstrom and Goade comes a passionate call to protect our environment. With rich illustrations of cosmic skies and lush lands, this timely story will educate and inspire generations to come.

On This Day

Life and Letters

Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head

The Irish writer—who was born thirty years ago today—has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism.

By Lauren Collins