Fiction

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

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  Good Night and Good Luck

  Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket.”

  Justin St. ClairOct 7

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  Making a Killing

  Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.

  Mikkel Krause FrantzenOct 2

  • Economics and Finance

  • Literary Criticism

  • Fiction

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  From “To the Madhouse: A Novel”

  Robert Rubsam offers a portrait of the artist as a lonely man, in an excerpt featured in the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”

  Robert RubsamOct 1

  • LARB Lit

  • Fiction

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  Perfect, or Whatever

  Paul Thompson speaks with Mike Powell about his debut novel, “New Paltz, New Paltz.”

  Paul ThompsonSep 26

  • Fiction

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  Testing the Soundness

  Justin St. Clair revisits some classics in Jonathan Lethem’s “A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories.”

  Justin St. ClairSep 24

  • Fiction

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  Realism Scrapes Through

  Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”

  Harry StecopoulosSep 23

  • Fiction

  • SF

  • Environment

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  God and Sex and Money

  Tierney Finster interviews Maya Martinez about her debut book, “Theatrics: Collected Theatrical Writings.”

  Tierney FinsterSep 17

  • Poetry

  • Fiction

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  On Translation Fiction and the Comfort of Monolingualism

  Marie Lambert analyzes recent works of fiction that feature translators as protagonists, and the questions they raise about cross-cultural communication in a heterogeneous world.

  Marie LambertSep 15

  • Literary Criticism

  • Fiction

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  Gazing into One’s Own Head

  Josh Billings reviews German author Michael Lentz’s novel “Schattenfroh,” newly translated by Max Lawton.

  Josh BillingsSep 9

  • Fiction

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  Bleak Intimacies

  Katie Tobin reviews Hungarian author Ágota Kristóf’s story collection “I Don’t Care,” newly translated by Chris Andrews.

  Katie TobinSep 8

  • Fiction

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  Connecting the Dots

  Adam Sobsey talks with Nell Zink and explores her new novel “Sister Europe.”

  Adam SobseySep 7

  • Fiction

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  All That Beauty and Misery

  Jenna Mahale interviews Philippa Snow about her new books “It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame” and “Snow Business.”

  Jenna MahaleSep 5

  • Fiction

  • Memoir & Essay