Art and science can seem two opposites on a spectrum. One is creative and interpretive, the other exact and empirical. But an emerging technology known as Pure Structural Colour – dubbed the “boldest, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alexandra Kleeman PURE COLOUR By Sheila Heti As a child, I invented a private taxonomy to sort my ...

A decade later, Heti is still thought of as a writer of “autofiction,” like Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, and Tao Lin—writers who bring the freedom of fiction to the story of their own lives. But in her ...

Twelve years ago, the writer Sheila Heti published a short list of her favorite “secret self-help” books, offering only the criteria that each book had “actually helped me—they’re both precious and ...

Sheila Heti first came to real critical attention with her 2012 novel, “How Should a Person Be?” The strange phrasing of that book’s title — not who or what but how should a person be — implied that ...