Fiction

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

The Departed
Robert Stone’s novels play by their own rules.
Ira WellsDec 25, 2013
- Fiction
Pynchon’s Launch Party
Pynchon’s literary career has shared more with the dehumanizing ethos of Silicon Valley than has been recognized. Siri is a Pynchon character.
Rebecca LiaoDec 22, 2013
- Fiction
- SF
The Necessary Language of the Everyday: On Reading Wang Anyi
WANG ANYI is one of China’s best-known writers, a reputation she cemented with her novel The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1995).
Anjum HasanDec 21, 2013
- Around the World
- Fiction
China and the Nobel IV
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Megan ShankDec 21, 2013
- Around the World
- Fiction
Covert Paradises: The Forgotten Fiction of David Stacton
In 1963, David Stacton was at the center of the American literary world, ranked by TIME among Roth, Ellison, Updike, and Walker Percy; now, he is not.
Matt SeidelDec 20, 2013
- Fiction
Whatever That Thing Is For You and Yours
Voice of the new South Allan Gurganus discusses regional literature, the craft of writing, and his new collection of novellas, Local Souls.
Joe FasslerDec 18, 2013
- Fiction
Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Ride
Ericka HoaglandDec 16, 2013
- Fiction
- SF
Reality Strikes
Reality TV ab-idol in a madcap novel.
Nathan DeuelDec 11, 2013
- Fiction
What the World Might Look Like
'Isle of Youth' and our current bumper crop of female realist authors
Jordan LarsonDec 11, 2013
- Fiction
Down and Out in the Digital South: Scott McClanahan's "Hill William"
Scott McClanahan writes off the beaten path of mainstream fiction.
Robert ReaDec 11, 2013
- Fiction
Looking Past the History: “The Tilted World”
The revenge-driven plot of The Tilted World conceals a deeply meditative and increasingly interior center.
Max WinterDec 11, 2013
- Fiction
A Saint with a Bad Temper: J. F. Powers and Company
One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century is one that few Americans read, if they’ve heard of him at all.
F.X. FeeneyDec 11, 2013
- Fiction