Culture What Don DeLillo saw coming In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision? By Chris Power
How Chekhov invented the modern short story The Russian writer's tales of stasis, uncertainty and irresolution determined the path of 20th-century fiction. By Chris Power
Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School: a fascinating, sometimes messy book In his latest novel, Lerner attempts to use 1990s America to explain Donald Trump’s US, a nation hamstrung by… By Chris Power
Thomas Bernhard’s fiction of the meaningless His work was powered by bile and dread, but the Austrian novelist found laughter in the dark. By Chris Power
Amy Arnold: “Writing something so dangerous genuinely scared me” Amy Arnold on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Slip of a Fish, science and fiction, and testing the limits of her… By Chris Power
Amy Arnold’s Slip of a Fish: an admirable, determined novel This Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel commits itself absolutely to portraying the troubled state of mind of its protagonist. By Chris Power
James Ellroy’s monuments to bigoted men Ellroy is a crime writing great – but has he got too close to the ugly racism of his… By Chris Power
The navel-gazing fictions of Gerald Murnane His strange, self-referential novels are finally winning the 79-year-old Australian fame. By Chris Power
Rachel Cusk: “I think of Brexit as a psychodrama” Rachel Cusk on political writing, the problems of female experience, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Kudos. By Chris Power