Anthony Miller

Following the death of his son in a high school shooting, Neil Downs travels from New York City to New Delhi. Transformed from trauma doctor to bereaved wanderer, Downs encounters others seeking acceptance and transcendence in the wake of their own personal losses. Among them is Holocaust survivor and bilious......

David Ohle’s 1972 cult novel Motorman has been acknowledged as an underground primer by such experimental authors as Ben Marcus, who wrote the introduction to the new 2004 reprint, and Shelley Jackson. The exuberantly surreal narrative defies synopsis. Introduced with an epigraph from the vertiginous artist M.C. Escher, the novel......

Illustration by William Simpson Mike Davis has brooded over the secret sociopolitics and cultural history of Los Angeles in his essential and inescapable City of Quartz. He has meditated on the myriad ways our metropolis might meet its doom in Ecology of Fear. To imagine a young adult novel written......

Photo by Heungman Samuel R. Delany is an author so multifaceted in his identity that he navigates, with equal grace, the disparate worlds of academic conferences and comic-book conventions. As a black, gay science-fiction writer, Delany spans both highbrow literature and underground culture — as comfortable discussing poststructuralism and semiotics......