Fiction

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

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  When Much Is at Stake: An Interview with Amina Gautier

  In "Now We Will Be Happy," both music and food perform political and cultural functions, operating in ways that culturally include and exclude characters.

  Jaquira DíazNov 25, 2015

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• Stories as Diagnosis

  Terrence Holt's stated goal is to give "a truthful account" of "what remained mysterious, and often troubling, about the process of becoming a doctor."

  Brian GittisNov 24, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Science & Technology

• Man-Eaters and Child-Nappers

  Man-Eaters and Child-Nappers.

  Madeleine LaRueNov 22, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Noir

• Ruined California

  "Gold Fame Citrus" seldom expresses a sense of nostalgia or elegy for a lost California.

  Nov 20, 2015

  • Fiction

• Answers No One Wants to Hear

  Charles Taylor reviews Michel Houellebecq's "Submission."

  Charles TaylorNov 18, 2015

  • Fiction

• Deformed Symmetries

  Stephen Sawyer on Michel Houellebecq's "Soumission" (Submission).

  Stephen SawyerNov 18, 2015

  • Fiction

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  A Promiscuous Sensibility

  Natalie Villacorta interviews Claire Vaye Watkins

  Natalie VillacortaNov 14, 2015

  • Fiction

• Dangerous to Human

  What Hempel and Ciment share, and what is ultimately revealed to be the heart of the novel, is a profound love and respect for dogs.

  Justin TaylorNov 10, 2015

  • Fiction

• The Syntax of Anxiety: Unica Zürn’s Novella

  Unica Zürn's novella "The Trumpets of Jericho" takes place in a certain limbo, at the torn seam between verisimilitude and disbelief.

  Zack HatfieldNov 9, 2015

  • Fiction

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  The Whirring Gears of the Colonialist Machine

  The gargantuan endeavor of the Ibis trilogy — an attempt to remedy the absences and silences of received history …

  Nasia AnamNov 6, 2015

  • Fiction

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  Escape into the Present: An Interview with Steve Toltz

  To escape is to be in the present. There’s something wonderful about writing, where you’re both in the present, in the moment, yet also in an imaginative fantasyland. So you get the best of both worlds.

  Dominic GreenNov 2, 2015

  • Fiction

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  The Melancholy of Patrick Modiano

  GD Dess writes about the legacy of Nobel Prize–winner Patrick Modiano.

  GD DessOct 30, 2015

  • Fiction