Books

From the science fiction of N.K. Jemisin to the final essays of Janet Malcolm, members of the frieze team select the books they’re most excited about this season

Eloise Hendy interrogates the complexities of merciless mother-daughter bonds in the author's latest book Is Mother Dead 

In her new book, Animal Joy, poet and psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir explores the role of the ‘inner clown’ in art and politics

Alastair Curtis reviews two memoirs by the French writer and looks at the lessons he learned from past relationships

The author's debut book, Which As You Know Means Violence, reveals the politics of self-injury in performance art and contemporary culture

A wry interrogation of 'The Twilight World' and the literary sequel to the Hollywood blockbuster 'Heat'

Édouard Louis’s A Woman’s Battles and Transformations and Lynne Tillman’s Mothercare both look at the struggles of their mothers through the socioeconomics lens of caregiving

The British artist revisits a classic 1970s photobook interrogating ‘unruly’ archival images

The writer’s new book riffs on the work of Édouard Levé while highlighting his own predilection for the absurd

The novelist watches Joanna Hogg’s two recent films and muses on how they convey the lessons learned in creative practices

What’s worth packing in your suitcase? The frieze team offers their picks for holiday reads

Released this month, Jhumpa Lahiri's new book explores her relationship with the Italian language as a writer and translator

The writer’s new collection of essays repositions Indiana as a prescient analyst of US art and politics

The artist and author’s new novella, ‘Tuesday or September or The End’, imagines an alternative collective future

Part memoir, part literary portrait, the author’s new book on Berlin goes beyond familiar narratives of the German capital

Nicole Rudick’s new biography weaves together her own writing with that of Saint Phalle, offering a more complex portrait of the artist

Ian Bourland speaks to the writer about the persistence of university narratives and what it means to write novels in 2022

A new book of Derek McCormack's collected writing captures his irreverent take on fashion, from Kathy Acker to Jean-Paul Gaultier and the late Thierry Mugler

In his first book, the author offers a scholarly account of the life and work of Minoru Yamasaki – the esteemed architect of the World Trade Center

The writer reflects on how secretly loving pool led him down a path of self-education