Fiction

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

Hello, Kitty; Goodbye, Illusions
Minjie Chen takes a journey through China’s shadowlands in “Hello, Kitty and Other Stories” by Anne Stevenson-Yang.
Minjie ChenNov 10
- Fiction
- Cultural Studies
Do You Like Me?
Madeline Howard interviews Anika Jade Levy about her debut novel, “Flat Earth.”
Madeline HowardNov 5
- Fiction
Pynchon’s Abundance
Travis Alexander revisits Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland,” arguing that it contains a prescient analysis of today’s liberal-leftist divide.
Travis AlexanderOct 30
- Fiction
- Politics
Finishing Last
Gracie Hadland relates to John Tottenham’s “Service.”
Gracie HadlandOct 29
- Fiction
Enuf Is Enuf
Tom LeClair clop-clops through Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel “Tom’s Crossing.”
Tom LeClairOct 28
- Fiction
- SF
Beautiful Losing
Josh Billings wonders about Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s new novel “Your Name Here.”
Josh BillingsOct 27
- Fiction
Precious Vestiges of Something That Took Place
Claire Foster reviews Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.”
Claire FosterOct 25
- Fiction
The Novella in the Age of Being Performatively Offline
Ryan Lackey considers Damion Searls’s take on the vertiginous effects of digital life in “Analog Days.”
Ryan LackeyOct 24
- Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Natasha Stagg
Tess Pollok interviews Natasha Stagg about her new novel “Grand Rapids.”
Tess PollokOct 24
- Fiction
The Knight of the Railways
Eric Vanderwall takes a ride with French author Mattia Filice’s debut novel “Driver,” newly translated by Jacques Houis.
Eric VanderwallOct 20
- Fiction
Macchiato
A. Cerisse Cohen writes about desire in your twenties, in a short story throwback from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
A. Cerisse CohenOct 17
- LARB Lit
- Fiction
Dogs of the Solar Steppe
Ari Braverman writes about a woman exiled to the countryside, in a short story from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Ari BravermanOct 11
- LARB Lit
- Fiction