Elif Batuman considers the dark portrait of marriage presented by the novel Gone Girl and its film adaptation for The New Yorker online.  

Elif Batuman, Ben Marcus, and Anthony Marra contribute to "Exquisite Corpse," a writer's parlor game devised by T Magazine.

Craig Morgan Teicher reviews The New Testament by Jericho Brown for NPR. He writes that while Brown's poems "never stop speaking through gritted teeth, never quite make the choice between hope and fear, they are always beautiful."

Dan Chiasson reviews Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf) by Claudia Rankine in The New Yorker. Chiasson calls the work "an especially vital book for this moment in time."