A Shadow of His Spirit
Contributor John Keeble on José Saramago's posthumous novel "Skylight"
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
John Rechy: An Interview
"I’ve never thought of myself as a rebel. This may sound naive, but I did not expect that City of Night would create the kind of stir that it did."
Honeymoon, with Mermaids
Samantha Peale reviews Lydia Millet’s 'Mermaids in Paradise'
A Novel at War with Itself
The novel is, if not a “fragment,” then a vast agglutination of fragments, and at the same time a text, in the narrator’s words, “at war with itself."
The Lives of Our Memories
The story of the narrator’s conception and birth: Andrea Canobbio’s inverted bildungsroman.
When Going Back to the Land Goes Wrong
"The unstoppable parade of calamities invoked by the narrator suggests one of two things: either the book is a long, hard poke at rural fetishists, or it’s a sincere reproach to country life."
A Portrait of the Young Girl: On the 60th Anniversary of Nabokov’s Lolita Part IV—An Interview Series
An interview series dedicated to the imagery of Lolita and the young girl
Infornography
In this novel about the destructive allure of sex and violence, the real shameful titillation comes from bingeing on sprinkles.
A Portrait of the Young Girl: On the 60th Anniversary of Nabokov’s Lolita Part III — An Interview Series
An interview series dedicated to the imagery of Lolita and the young girl.
I Dare Not: The Muted Style of Writer in Exile Ha Jin
As a new generation of Chinese writer-exiles settles in the West, we wonder whether Jin’s flat, alienating style will come to be regarded as a kind of artifact, a self-preserving fossil of the trauma generated by those who witnessed the mixture of real and manufactured emotion that fueled a collective mania.
More Ravishing with Each Blow
In her second novel, Reasons She Goes to the Woods, the Welsh writer Deborah Kay Davies places at the center of her narrative the dark materials that so often shape the mental lives of children: a parent’s mental illness, a preteen’s fierce sexual energy.
A Portrait of the Young Girl: On the 60th Anniversary of "Lolita" Part II — An Interview Series
An interview series dedicated to the imagery of Lolita and the young girl.
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