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In My Father’s Closet: Considering the Jewish Novel, Saul Bellow, and Bruce Bauman
Claire Phillips on Jewish identity, immigration, and the literary descendants of the great Saul Bellow.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Across the Irish Pond
“Pond” is a collection of stories for wiseasses and weirdos, a cathedral of strange sentences built upon the singular experience of being human.
Oh, Sancho: The Ongoing Ride of Don Quixote in American Politics
What can Miguel de Cervantes's novel tell us about the "post-truth" era?
Metafictional Machinations: On William Luvaas’s “Beneath the Coyote Hills”
Daniel Green reviews William Luvaas’s new novel, “Beneath the Coyote Hills.”
Monsters of Translation: On Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov
Josh Billings wrestles with translations of the “untranslatable” novels of Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov.
The Divine Power of the Cauliflower: An Interview with Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker, author of "The Cauliflower," talks faith, play, and the novel.
Thus Bad Begins and Worse Remains Behind: Javier Marías
Donald Breckenridge on Javier Marías's "Thus Bad Begins."
Rereading John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”
Rob Sternberg on the pleasures of rereading John Fante.
A Less Ordinary Desperation
Libby Flores on Taylor Larsen's "Stranger, Father, Beloved."
The Land Down Under
Jean Hey reviews David Francis’s novel "Wedding Bush Road."
After The Dams: On Amy Hassinger’s Novel and the Dakota Pipeline
The novel explores dam building, pipelines, and their repercussions on indigenous people.
Always One More Time: On Walter Benjamin’s “One-Way Street” and “The Storyteller”
Michael Blum takes a fresh look at the shorter work of Walter Benjamin.
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