Fiction

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

• A Life in Torment

  Two novels set in Buenos Aires approach Argentina's fraught history of violence and corruption.

  Martín GambarottaFeb 3, 2016

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• New York Trance — Geoff Dyer and the Life of the Writer

  In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence.

  Toby LloydJan 31, 2016

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

  • Nonfiction

• The Mystery Behind the Name

  Katherine Montwieler considers the relationship between personal and cultural traumas in Elizabeth Strout's "My Name is Lucy Barton."

  Katherine MontwielerJan 25, 2016

  • Fiction

• The Death of the Author

  Rhian Sasseen deconstructs the reader's obsession with authorial suicide.

  Rhian SasseenJan 23, 2016

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  I Need to Know Everything About You: Melissa Chadburn with Carmiel Banasky

  Melissa Chadburn interviews Carmiel Banasky.

  Melissa ChadburnJan 22, 2016

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  Beautiful Lies

  Alex Espinoza interviews Joy Castro.

  Alex EspinozaJan 20, 2016

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  “Beauty, Love and Vanity Itself”: An Interview with Diane Williams

  Annie DeWitt interviews Diane Williams about her new short story collection, "Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine."

  Annie DeWittJan 18, 2016

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  The Full-Spectrum Loser

  "Hotels of North America" consists of a series of Morse's hotel reviews for RateYourLodging.com.

  Ira WellsJan 16, 2016

  • Fiction

• Ephemeral Epiphanies

  "Between You and Me," the tale of a middle-aged Manhattanite's domestication in the "raccoon-infested wilds of northern New Jersey," is a lovely, quiet novel.

  Matt SeidelJan 16, 2016

  • Fiction

• When New York Erupted

  In "City on Fire," the blackout serves as the moment when New York erupted.

  Alex NorciaJan 15, 2016

  • Fiction

• A Strange and Endless Journey: A Conversation with Jamey Gambrell, translator of Vladimir Sorokin’s “The Blizzard”

  Alina Cohen interviews translator Jamey Gambrell about Vladimir Sorokin's new novel, "The Blizzard."

  A. Cerisse CohenJan 13, 2016

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• The Pathologies of Organized Violence

  Mukoma's story draws out the universal ways in which the nation (or its myth) is always founded on exclusions and violence.

  Cajetan Nwabueze IhekaJan 13, 2016

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