Readings

Earth is doomed—to science fiction writers, always, and increasingly to the rest of us. Enter Mars Literature: a surprisingly hopeful subgenre that might contain the clues to our species' survival.

When it works—think Beyoncé and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Blur and Martin Amis, Nirvana and Patrick Süskind—the intersection of pop music and literature can be a wonderful, mutually beneficial thing.

Our new, trademark-pending, Hazlitt questionnaire.

The author meets an old carny who could have been stripped from the pages of her new novel.