A Strange Mind: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk
The novel is about modern city life, and the characters may be poor, but they are very modern. Their problem is adjusting to the individuality of the...
The novel is about modern city life, and the characters may be poor, but they are very modern. Their problem is adjusting to the individuality of the...
Bruce RobbinsNov 29, 2015
Andrew DeGraff's "Plotted: A Literary Atlas" is a book of maps based on great works of literature.
Jonathan Russell ClarkOct 20, 2015
Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was.
Boris DralyukOct 18, 2015
Veteran Rushdie readers will find in his most recent novel, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," familiar hallmarks of his imagination.
Bina GogineniOct 13, 2015
Comic books, climate change, and caliphates in Salman Rushdie's "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights."
Andrew LanhamOct 7, 2015
Joy Williams's stories, especially when read collectively, challenge the plausible and demand a reader's participation, a leap of faith.
Jerusha Joy EmersonSep 23, 2015
Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important.
Boris DralyukAug 20, 2015
Not only in interviews but in the novels themselves, Knausgaard has proven his own best critic.
Ben ParkerAug 17, 2015
— The Dying Grass and other Dreams of William T. Vollmann
Nick HoldstockAug 14, 2015
Vollmann wishes for a release from ahistoricism that deprives Americans of the perspective needed to grapple capably with problems arising in the...
Christopher K. CoffmanAug 14, 2015
The Prank proves Anton Chekhov could write hilarious stories from an early age.
Bob BlaisdellJul 20, 2015
Perhaps an essential thing Kundera's late style reveals is that the senile sublime has lurked in his prose all along.
Jenny HendrixJul 5, 2015
"The Book of Aron" is a book about annihilation, and the human spirit that somehow lives on, in slivers and cracks.
Nicholas MirielloJun 12, 2015
Elizabeth Berg's voluptuous new novel, "The Dream Lover," deftly illuminates the interior life of French Romantic writer George Sand.
Jill BialoskyJun 7, 2015
Where satire is an act of lifting the veil to expose the truth, in "The Sellout" Paul Beatty lifts the veil over race in America to find several...
Dotun AkintoyeJun 4, 2015
As a new generation of Chinese writer-exiles settles in the West, we wonder whether Jin’s flat, alienating style will come to be regarded as a kind...
Albert Wu, Michelle KuoJan 11, 2015
Maybe a good life is just living long enough to figure out some essential truth.
Tod GoldbergDec 13, 2014
Les Plesko and the Art of Writing
David FrancisDec 11, 2014
In 'Nora Webster', Colm Tóibín Reexplores Childhood Abandonment
Daniel PearceOct 19, 2014
Eimear McBride felt that a part of life wasn’t being expressed through straightforward language.
Susan McCallum-SmithOct 18, 2014
As in the best speculative fiction, the allegory of Goodhouse is complex and doesn’t map cleanly onto a single set of ideas.
Carmen Maria MachadoOct 7, 2014
Amy Wilentz on The Children Act
Amy WilentzSep 23, 2014
In his innovative debut novel — Your Face in Mine — author Jess Row explores the the possibility of changing races, but doesn’t go more than skin...
Jason McCallSep 12, 2014
Joshua Ferris's "To Rise at a Decent Hour"
David Burr Gerrard Jun 2, 2014