Fiction

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

• The Hilarity of Evil

  Morten Høi Jensen on 'The Zone of Interest' by Martin Amis.

  Morten Høi JensenNov 18, 2014

  • Fiction

• I Am Revolted from the Inside

  Kyle McCarthy on Hilary Mantel and 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'

  Kyle McCarthyNov 16, 2014

  • Fiction

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  On John Williams’s Novel “Augustus”: A Conversation

  Not even "Augustus" brought John Williams the attention he deserved in his lifetime.

  Charles J. Shields, William GiraldiNov 16, 2014

  • Fiction

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  A Funny Process

  Charles Shafaieh interviews Colm Tóibín on "Nora Webster"

  Charles ShafaiehNov 15, 2014

  • Fiction

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  We’re in This Barroom Brawl Together

  Miriam Toews on the Fiction of Grief and Comedy

  Christine Fischer GuyNov 14, 2014

  • Fiction

• Fear and Loathing in Freetown

  As a journalist, Denis Johnson reported on some of the worst atrocities befalling Africa, but until now he had not used the material for fiction.

  Stav SherezNov 13, 2014

  • Fiction

• Beauty, Mourning, and Melancholy in Africa39

  Africa39 spins at this axis, between the colonized generation of Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness and the post-colonial world to which it gave birth.

  Mukoma Wa NgugiNov 9, 2014

  • Fiction

• Incompetence Porn: Courtney Moreno’s Existential Tales of an EMT

  Moreno’s tale of a novice emergency medical technician isn’t one of virtuosity, genius, or preternatural strength, but of a halting progression from incompetence to competence — a very human trajectory.

  Katharine BeutnerNov 5, 2014

  • Fiction

• Why Such Tidings

  "McGlue" has the urgency of short fiction married with the grandiosity of an epic at-sea classic.

  Zachary Tyler VickersNov 4, 2014

  • Fiction

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  Writing Is a Lonely Business: James McKimmey, Philip K. Dick, and the Lost Art of Author Correspondence

  "At times Dick’s letters read like outtakes of his books, with allusions to alternate realities merging with accounts of everyday life."

  Jason StarrNov 3, 2014

  • Fiction

  • SF

• A Spanish Saga

  Glenn HarperNov 2, 2014

  • Fiction

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  It Was a Very Good Year

  Why study a single year? Lots of reasons.

  Alan GlynnNov 1, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Fiction

  • Film