Virtue for Spite
In "The Harder They Come," T.C. Boyle takes on the toxic kernel of the American far right, calling attention to the durable saliency of the libertarian fringe.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
The Wonder of Disillusionment
Even when you finish reading T.C. Boyle's new novel, "The Harder They Come," you will turn the blank page hoping for more.
Bloody Artistry
Mario Vargas Llosa on loving bullfighting as a dance, a sport, and an artistic influence.
To Forget History
It would be easy to interpret Kundera’s sympathy for those who want to rewrite their pasts as the author’s hidden desire to forget something shameful from his own past.
A Religion of the Text
To observe the dietary laws of a religion is fundamentalism, but so too is staying off the grid, so too is attempting to remain illegible to commercial …
A Spell of Foreign Travel
The "Diver's Clothes Lie Empty" loses no time in engaging a question that epitomizes what the most authentic travel is about: what is it to have an identity?
Golden Ages Past
Muse is a kind of mystery: not so much a who-done-it but a more satisfying who-felt-it, who-experienced-it, who-saw-it-for-what-it-really-was.
Desire in a Drought
Anna Mavromati discusses Catherine Chanter's debut novel and the power of rare commodity.
What Are Novels For?: Privilege, Race, and Shelter in Nell Zink’s “Mislaid”
Zink delights in the possibilities of fiction and the pleasures of playing with words, one-liners, and genres.
Lies Like Truth: On Fiction, Reality, and Fictional Reality
Contemporary readers, many brought up on tell-all memoirs, reality shows, and talk shows, now often seem confused about what were once easily discernible borders.
Enigmatic Interiors: On Love, Death, Divorce, and Michael White’s New “Travels in Vermeer”
The book is deceptive … a travel book that is really an art book; an art book that is really about love, death, drinking, and other kinds of grief.
Everything Was in the Making
This book is for the pioneers at heart: those who want to be in the garage with Steve Jobs, on the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, at Cape Canaveral in 1961.
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