Fiction

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

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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

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• 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

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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

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  It’s Not Even Past

  John Bowe and James Hannaham Discuss Delicious Foods, Nobodies, and Modern American Slavery

  John BoweMar 24, 2015

  • Fiction

• A Satin Island of the Mind

  Christopher Urban on Tom McCarthy's new novel.

  Christopher UrbanMar 24, 2015

  • Fiction

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  Building van Gogh’s World

  Van Gogh was so appreciative of the beauty of the natural world, and he wanted to give back to this beauty by representing it as best he could.

  Claire LuchetteMar 21, 2015

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• An Elephant Remembers

  John Dixon Mirisola on Tania James's second novel.

  John Dixon MirisolaMar 20, 2015

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• Paranoia, the Realistic Response

  In Horatio Moya’s novel about a journalist exiled from El Salvador, paranoia is the only logical and moral response.

  Michael LaPointeMar 20, 2015

  • Fiction

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  The Imitation Game

  Jacob Rubin: “I just follow my characters around and wait for them to do something interesting.”

  Clarissa RomanoMar 14, 2015

  • Fiction

• Love Lays Ghastly Traps for the Soul

  “Love lays ghastly traps for the soul,” in Tremain’s engrossing tales, but her characters accept their unhappiness as the necessary antidote to meaninglessness.

  Mary F. CoreyMar 12, 2015

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