Laura Adamczyk
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Chicago, IL, United States
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The Employees is an elusive, creeping, quietly defiant workplace satire
With The Employees, Danish writer Olga Ravn subverts the expectations of science fiction and the workplace novel → Read More
What are you reading in February?
There’s no bad time to dig into N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy → Read More
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso review: A child grows up in Manguso's first novel
After seven books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, the 300 Arguments author makes her heartbreaking novel debut → Read More
Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, and the American family in the golden age of television
Despite presenting a far more dynamic vision of what an American family could be, Six Feet Under has never been granted the same gravitas as The Sopranos → Read More
Hitting below the belt: Succession’s heated volley of sexualized insults
This latest season of the popular HBO drama has significantly ramped up the Oedipal allusions → Read More
How bookstores are adjusting to supply-chain problems this holiday season
The A.V. Club asked a trio of booksellers how they’re preparing for this year's book-buying season, and which titles they think will be most popular → Read More
Mel Brooks’ memoir, an in-depth history of HBO, and more books to read in November
November also brings with it new speculative and science fiction from Natashia Deón, Charlie Jane Anders, and Adam Soto → Read More
With Parquet Courts’ new album comes a reminder of their most undervalued talent
Parquet Courts are best known for the wild and woolly energy of their early work, but one of the band’s greatest strengths is its comedown songs → Read More
What are you reading in October?
Lily Hoang’s bleak, unrelenting tale of infanticide, Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s novel-in-verse, and books one and two of The Copenhagen Trilogy → Read More
What are you reading in September?
Gabrielle Union's memoir on motherhood, a coming-of-age novella set in mid-century Mexico City, and short stories capturing the Korean diaspora → Read More
Joy Williams’ Harrow is a strange, comic novel for the end of the world
In her first novel in over 20 years, Williams has written a philosophical story of climate change filled with weighty symbols → Read More
Maggie Nelson wades into the discourse’s murky middle in On Freedom
The latest work of nonfiction from the Argonauts author, On Freedom: Four Songs Of Care And Constraint, takes on sex, drugs, art, and climate change → Read More
How do we solve a problem like loneliness? In Seek You, Kristen Radtke looks for an answer
In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, illustrator and writer Kristen Radtke considers the causes and effects of a national epidemic → Read More
5 new books to read in July
A story collection set in Bogotá, an exuberant biography on Fernanda Pessoa, the latest from Simon Rich, and more → Read More
What are you reading in June?
This Pride Month, The A.V. Club gets Kink-y, says ¡Hola Papi!, visits the Sweet Gum Head, and more → Read More
5 new books to read in June
Zakiya Dalila Harris makes a thrilling debut with The Other Black Girl, journalist Mike Rothschild takes on QAnon, New Yorker writer Sheldon Pearce assembles a Tupac oral history, and more books to read in June. → Read More
The “action poetry” of Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd
In her essay collection, The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner puts a premium on those who live their lives as art. → Read More
What are you reading in April?
Christine Smallwood's The Life Of The Mind is a page-turner in which not a lot happens. Plus: We're revisiting Shadow And Bone by Leigh Bardugo ahead of its Netflix adaptation and getting lost in John McCrae's latest serialized novel. → Read More
5 new books to read in April
The Library Of America unearths a slim novel from Richard Wright, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner pens the full-length Crying In H Mart, Jeff VanderMeer returns with the adrenaline-fueled Hummingbird Salamander, and more. → Read More
What are you reading in March?
Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara And The Sun dips into the uncanny valley, poet Paisley Rekdal explores cultural appropriation and authenticity in Appropriate, and Jen Spyra's imagination runs wild in Big Time. → Read More