Fiction

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

All That Modernism Is: Reading David Szalay
Booker-shortlisted David Szalay plays the modernist game remarkably well.
John Dixon MirisolaDec 1, 2016
- Fiction
Bae Suah’s Narrative Collapse
The recently translated “A Greater Music” by Bae Suah is a dreamy time-warp of a novel that complicates our relationship with reality.
John W. W. ZeiserNov 30, 2016
- Fiction
Life (Narrative) in the End Times
Time and narrative, once again, turn out to have histories.
Tanya AgathocleousNov 29, 2016
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
How It Happens Here: Race and American Anti-Fascist Literature
Brooks E. Hefner on "The Black Stockings," William Thomas Smith's 1937 serial aimed at working- and middle-class African-American readers.
Brooks E. HefnerNov 26, 2016
- Fiction
Michael Chabon, Playing Himself
Michael Chabon on the blurring between fact and fiction in his newest novel, “Moonglow.”
Sanders I. BernsteinNov 25, 2016
- Fiction
A Brilliant Mind’s Pauses: The Fiction of Russia’s Greatest Poet
Bob Blaisdell praises the prose of Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin.
Bob BlaisdellNov 22, 2016
- Around the World
- Fiction
Pure Literature: On Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich
James Thomas Snyder considers the work of two Nobel laureates from Central and Eastern Europe, Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich.
James Thomas SnyderNov 22, 2016
Third-Rail Erotica
Laura Frost on Anaïs Nin's recently published "Auletris."
Laura FrostNov 20, 2016
- Fiction
Kafka: An End or a Beginning?
Morten Høi Jensen revisits the life and work of Franz Kafka.
Morten Høi JensenNov 19, 2016
- Biography & Autobiography
- Fiction
“Small Things, Like the Nature of Happiness”: An Interview with Marcy Dermansky
Novelist Matthew Salesses talks to Marcy Dermansky about her new book “The Red Car.”
Matthew SalessesNov 18, 2016
- Fiction
You Are Being Watched: On Patrick Flanery’s “I Am No One”
On Patrick Flanery’s thrilling novel about surveillance and mystery.
Bryan HurtNov 18, 2016
- Fiction
Zadie Smith’s Rhythmic Play in Shadow and Light
Walton Muyumba on Zadie Smith's latest novel.
Walton MuyumbaNov 17, 2016
- Fiction