War Fractures
Lisa Ko on Lan Cao’s The Lotus and the Storm
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Nail Me Right Inside the Blackness
Annie Galvin on A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
[VIDEO] Mona Simpson on Love and Spying in "Casebook"
Mona Simpson discusses the inspiration for her new novel "Casebook" and why it is a different kind of love story.
Pickles, Puja, and Pulp: On Tamil Pulp Fiction
FICTION: NEW & NOTEWORTHY
The Departed
Robert Stone’s novels play by their own rules.
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.
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).
China and the Nobel IV
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.
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.
Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Ride
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