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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.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
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.
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.
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."
Postcards from the Threshold
Joy Williams's stories, especially when read collectively, challenge the plausible and demand a reader's participation, a leap of faith.
The Pure, Messy Math of Us
In upping the ante on the darker sides of characters, Franzen has paradoxically lifted up a more reflective and penetrating mirror to his readers.
That Was Now; This Is Then
David Gates interviews Tom Piazza.
An Immigrant Story, the Tango, and Gender Fluidity
Carolina de Robertis's third novel of historical fiction, "The Gods of Tango," is a bold and mesmerizing meditation on the immigrant experience.
My Story, Mystery: A Letter to Hild of Whitby
A letter to one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages: Hilda of Whitby.
Austin’s Psychic Heart
On David Heymann's recent collection of short stories, "My Beautiful City Austin."
California, Coming Home: On “Valley Fever” and “Life #6”
"Life #6" and "Valley Fever," both by writers from California, have recently tapped into the long American tradition of writing about the West Coast.
Me, Myself, and Hitler
Karl Ove Knausgaard cautiously observed a year after the Utøya massacre that Breivik and Hitler both shared characteristics of the true fanatic.
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