In Ben Lerner’s latest novel, Transcription, the narrator drops his phone in the sink after travelling to Rhode Island to ...

Ben Lerner’s new novel, “Transcription,” is less than a hundred and fifty pages long. It is slim and sly—“quieter” than his three previous novels, as he puts it—but, like all of Lerner’s books, it ...

In 2024, the Paris Review published an interview that Ben Lerner conducted with 90-year-old poet Rosemarie Waldrop over the ...

Staff Picks returns this spring with selections from News Editor Drew Gillis, who just devoured Ben Lerner’s latest novel, and Games Editor Garrett Martin, who spotlights an indie game with a unique ...

At the start of Ben Lerner's startling new novel "Transcription," a man sits on a train trying to read and failing because he ...

In The Topeka School (2019), for example, a married middle-aged man beginning an affair is at the same time the teenage boy ...

Though there's still plenty of exciting books to look forward to in the months ahead, Ben Lerner's new novel Transcription ...

In a short story called “Wireless,” published in Scribner’s in 1901, Rudyard Kipling described “a glass tube” with “two tiny ...

A fictional take on how cell phones have changed us all and the ways self-focus can lead to a happier existence ...