Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin is the author of four books, most recently Signs and Wonders (stories) and Inside (a novel), which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Non-required Reading, Best American Short Stories, and many other places.

The House, The Story

Reading Elizabeth Taylor...

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Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot

"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."...

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Life Was Sometimes Lovely and Sometimes Rather Sad: Du Maurier Reconsidered

A MARRIED COUPLE LAUGH together in a restaurant. They’re playing a game, making up stories about the strangers around them. Because they take the game so very seriously, we come to understand how little fun they are otherwise having. ...

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Our Zombies, Ourselves: Colson Whitehead's "Zone One"

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FICTION