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The Friends of the Museum
The Museum of Innocence is 500 days old; the things in the shops around it are older.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
The World Behind It: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal
The Lasting Influence of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent"
Twenty-six years after its publication, Scott Turow’s bestselling legal thriller Presumed Innocent has helped shape the literary world we live in today.
Amos Oz Returns to the Kibbutz
Amos Oz has returned to the kibbutz, although one could argue he never really left.
Pride and Paragon: Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Laurie Winer reviews the Audible.com version of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."
Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
The Past is Not Dead: Time and Race in Kiese Laymon’s “Long Division”
Despite the success of the civil rights movement, African-American identity is still attached to centuries of slavery followed by Jim Crow discrimination.
“The Moment” in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland”
The history at the beginning of The Lowland is not a flaw, it is centrally important to the novel.
Essays on Jonathan Franzen’s Latest Book and His First
The Writer as Reader: Melville and his Marginalia
Torture Unimagined
Lives Derailed, Novel Unfinished
Delving into an unfinished novel is a sticky business. The chance to sneak behind the fluffed and combed prose, and cast a glance at the bare scaffolding can be fraught with expectations and the seeds of disappointment.
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