Reality Strikes
Reality TV ab-idol in a madcap novel.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
What the World Might Look Like
'Isle of Youth' and our current bumper crop of female realist authors
Down and Out in the Digital South: Scott McClanahan's "Hill William"
Scott McClanahan writes off the beaten path of mainstream fiction.
Looking Past the History: “The Tilted World”
The revenge-driven plot of The Tilted World conceals a deeply meditative and increasingly interior center.
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.
The Friends of the Museum
The Museum of Innocence is 500 days old; the things in the shops around it are older.
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.
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