Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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  Your Life Is Not a Plot

  Nada Alic speaks with Halle Butler about social satire, writing humor, and her newest novel, “Banal Nightmare.”

  Nada AlicDec 6

  • Fiction

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  Blambustercated

  Sanjena Sathian speaks with Dan Chaon about his new novel, “One of Us.”

  Sanjena SathianDec 4

  • Fiction

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  Red Still Runs Through You

  David Hering interviews Stephanie LaCava about her new novel, “Nymph.”

  David HeringNov 28

  • Fiction

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  A Power Built on Lies

  Cory Oldweiler reviews Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s novel “Eye of the Monkey,” newly translated by Ottilie Mulzet.

  Cory OldweilerNov 26

  • Fiction

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  Miracles, Magic Thinking, and the Climate Crisis

  Tess Pollok interviews Jon Raymond about his new novel, “God and Sex.”​​

  Tess PollokNov 26

  • Fiction

  • Environment

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  I Refuse to Let You Have My Joy

  Iris Kim talks to Jaquira Díaz about her new novel, “This Is the Only Kingdom.”

  Iris KimNov 23

  • Fiction

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  Our Reigning Prophet of Doom

  Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s latest story collection, “The Pelican Child.”

  Gideon LeekNov 21

  • Fiction

  • Environment

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  What If This Somehow Came Together?

  Cameron Engwall speaks with August Thompson about his debut novel, “Anyone’s Ghost.”

  Cameron EngwallNov 19

  • Fiction

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  You Can Go Home Again, and Again, and Again

  Cory Oldweiler reviews the new translation of Danish author Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III).”

  Cory OldweilerNov 18

  • Fiction

  • SF

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  Laboring in the Dream Factory

  Harry Stecopoulos reviews Olivia Laing’s new novel “The Silver Book.”

  Harry StecopoulosNov 16

  • Fiction

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  On Adaptation: From Page to Screen

  In November 2024, writers Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jonathan Ames, Anna Dorn, and Jane Hu gathered at LITLIT for a discussion with Paul Thompson about how it feels to take a work from book to screen.

  Paul Thompson, Jane Hu, Jonathan Ames, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anna DornNov 16

  • Film

  • Fiction

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  Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram

  Hannah Smart writes about her attempt to diagram a 900-word sentence in David Foster Wallace’s “Mister Squishy,” and what the efforts taught her about human inertia and meaningless language.

  Hannah SmartNov 15

  • Fiction

  • Literary Criticism