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No Survivors: Women, Violence, and the Brutal Love of Eileen Chang
Fate laughs in all our faces.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Every Encounter Is Singular: Gene Kwak interviews Askold Melynyczuk
Gene Kwak and Askold Melnyczuk take on low brow, high brow, and all brow.
Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 4: Ann Goldstein on “Ferrante Fever”
"Pasolini is not known as an author as much as a moviemaker. I think his novels are really interesting. And I really like Romano Bilenchi."
A Nasty Tale of Redemption: A Conversation With Susan Rukeyser
MaryAnne Kolton talks with Susan Rukeyser about her novel “Not on Fire, Only Dying”, a lost Kingston, NY, and dealing with anxiety.
Comments Are Closed
Dana Spiotta’s "Innocents and Others" made me think about the shame I hear and project when I eavesdrop (unwillingly) on people sitting near me at the café.
The Outside Comes Hurtling In
"High Dive" is a powerful, compassionate work of historical fiction that rehumanizes the historical record of The Troubles.
An Ordinary Life
Fiona McFarlane's Australians tend to be placid and remote adept at minimizing their desires, and sometimes poignantly, sometimes frighteningly conformist.
Beyond the Matrimonial Horizon
An adaptation that feels at once deeply faithful and impious.
Narrative as Provocation
Douglas Piccinnini suspends and electrifies narration.
Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 2: Michael Hofmann in an Age of Increasing Insufficiency
Michael Hofmann and Liesl Schillinger discuss knowing German and translating the big story.
In Search of the Great Hollywood Novel
Hollywood novels let us see the past, not in long-shot, with the gulf of time separating us from the events they describe, but in brilliant close-up
The Comfort of War: Pat Barker’s World War II Trilogy
The beginning of Pat Barker’s novel "Noonday" raises the question of whether we are too saturated by fictions that play to our fascination with World War II
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