Fiction

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

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  The Marriage Plot: Three Versions of “Wolf Hall”

  The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn has been told and retold from hundreds of angles. So why did Hilary Mantel’s version catch fire?

  Laurie WinerApr 30, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Television

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  Forty Years After the Fall — Vietnam War Lit in 2015

  A reflection on war literature 40 years after the Fall of Saigon.

  Matt GallagherApr 30, 2015

  • Fiction

• A Short Story Can Ruin Your Life

  If "There's Something I Want You to Do" contains a lesson, it is that inventing one's own decalogue — one's own set of rules, one's own morality — carries quite a risk, not of damnation, but of existential exhaustion.

  Susannah ShiveApr 25, 2015

  • Fiction

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  Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part III

  Part 3 of a 3-Part Series

  William PierceApr 24, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part II

  Part 2 of a 3-Part Series

  William PierceApr 23, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part I

  Part 1 of a 3-Part Series

  William PierceApr 22, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

• A Wishful Fear and a Fearful Wish

  Alex Norcia discusses Stephen Marche's new novel in the context of the second gilded age.

  Alex NorciaApr 20, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  Interview with Author James Tadd Adcox

  An interview with James Tadd Adcox, author of Does Not Love.

  LARB AVApr 17, 2015

  • Fiction

• The Long View

  What is good about McGuane's stories is their indirection, and the sense that just under the surface is a swelling about to turn into a terror.

  John KeebleApr 17, 2015

  • Fiction

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  Minding Other People’s Business: On Dawn Powell

  Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing.

  Victoria PattersonApr 14, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Wild at Heart

  Panio Gianopoulos talks to Christian Kiefer about his new novel.

  Panio GianopoulosApr 10, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Noir

• The Space of Possibility

  In a sense, "Satin Island" resembles a genre for which Tom McCarthy has an avowed fondness, one listed on the cover: that brash, repetitious vessel of rousing ideology, the manifesto.

  Daniel PearceMar 26, 2015

  • Fiction