In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Lerner’s new novel, a cerebral exploration of technology, family, ...

The American author discussed his novel, Transcription, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.

“I like that cover, because part of the goal of the book, and part of why it’s a slim book, is that I wanted us to think of ...

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

In Transcription, Ben Lerner’s narrator refers early on to a seminal moment in his life when he was taken to see Harvard’s glass flowers and began to develop the ability to view nature as culturally ...

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

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

Near the beginning of Ben Lerner’s new novel the unnamed narrator recalls visiting an exhibition of botanical models made ...

In the beautiful and resonant latest from Lerner (The Topeka School), a middle-aged man constructs an elaborate farewell to his mentor. In the first of three sections, the unnamed narrator travels to ...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Lerner’s fourth novel, Transcription, is a compact and profound meditation on the nature of ...