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Pure Fruit
Katherine Taylor discusses her writing process, the autobiographical nature of writing, and the inspiration in California's Central Valley.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Englishness in an Apocalypse
"The Wake," Paul Kingsnorth's deliriously experimental imagining of the Norman Conquest as both natural and cultural apocalypse, is like Buccmaster's fens.
Patient Atavism
Throughout Tessa Hadley's "The Past," there remains a seemingly impassable distance between the world of women and the world of men.
Not the Usual South Asian Muslim Suspects
Tanwi Nandini Islam speaks on the inspiration for her award-winning novel "Bright Lines" and its richly drawn South Asian Muslim characters.
Life During Wartime
Mahmoud Saeed's "A Portal in Space" recalls an Iraq of moderate religious life, rule of law, and middle-class aspiration.
Fact-Checking Mark Twain
Are the journalism and the tall tales by Mark Twain one and the same?
Los Angeles, Fresno, and the Misanthrope
Not just another dark Hollywood satire: Aris Janigian and his "Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont."
Revelation or Hallucination?
Sigal Samuel keeps us guessing in her first novel.
Gushing and Gleeking
Carly Hallman maps out a surreal and wobbly moral universe in her bold debut, "Year of the Goose."
A New Way of Looking: Colum McCann and the Empathy of His Fiction
The embrace of otherness, of stepping outside the self, typifies Colum McCann's career.
Reading Madame Bovary in the Provinces
"Madame Bovary" — a text that, together with Camembert, Côtes du Rhône, and French kissing, may stand as one of France's most enduring cultural exports.
Marriage in Meltdown
What emerges most powerfully from "The Longest Night" is a kind of quiet wonder at how a person can come to exist in another.
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