Fiction

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

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  (Un)fictional Geographies

  Jennine Capó Crucet, author of "Make Your Home Among Strangers," talks to fellow novelist Alex Espinoza.

  Alex EspinozaOct 19, 2015

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  Novels Don’t Lie: A Conversation Between Robert Kloss and Colin Winnette

  As a culture and as a literature we lose something when the poets and storytellers abdicate the telling of the national myth to historians and academics.

  Colin Winnette, Robert KlossOct 14, 2015

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  Keep, Don’t Kill, Your Darlings

  Laura van den Berg interviews Matthew Salesses on the difficulties with writing conflict in narrative

  Laura van den BergOct 10, 2015

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  E. L. Doctorow’s Postmodernist Style

  When was it that we read an academic essay devoted to E. L. Doctorow's fiction?

  Adam KellyOct 9, 2015

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  Speaking with Lily Tuck About Autofiction, Narrative

  With "The Double Life of Liliane," Tuck returns to playing with form, telling a fictionalized version of her own coming-of-age story.

  S. Kirk WalshOct 8, 2015

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• Sex and the Sacred Text: Michelle Tea on the Republication of Eileen Myles’s “Chelsea Girls”

  I most remember reading "Chelsea Girls" in the dark, at bars around San Francisco in the '90s …

  Michelle TeaOct 4, 2015

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• A Portrait of Marriage in Two Parts

  Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies" is a portrait of a marriage in two parts: "Fates" (his) and "Furies" (hers).

  Catherine SteindlerSep 30, 2015

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  Victoria Patterson Discusses “The Little Brother”

  "I'd been following the Greg Haidl rap case and wanting to write about it for quite some time. How did the lawyers manage to get a mistrial?"

  Barbara DeMarco-BarrettSep 30, 2015

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  Ferrante and Her Fourth and Final Neapolitan Novel

  The intense appeal of the Neapolitan novels is the intimacy they provide as we follow Elena and Lila's involvement in each other's lives.

  Suzanne BerneSep 29, 2015

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• Mr. Difficult Rejects His Title: Ira Wells on “Purity”

  Jonathan Franzen could never entirely overcome his youthful conviction that reading was supposed to be more fun than work.

  Ira WellsSep 29, 2015

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• The Great Gorsky: A Debut Novel from Vesna Goldsworthy

  With her fiction debut, Vesna Goldsworthy achieves notable, if not total success in making a new Gatsby out of a modern-day Russian oligarch in London.

  Ben PaynterSep 27, 2015

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• Killing Fiction Meets the Medea Impasse: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” and “Medea”

  "Outline" marks the threshold between Cusk’s memoir "Aftermath," where she ruminates on her marriage and its dissolution, and her take on Euripides’s "Medea."

  Magdalena EdwardsSep 25, 2015

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