Literary Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

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  Bali Diary: At the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

  A visit to the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali.

  Maria BustillosDec 3, 2015

  • Literary Fiction

  • Travel

• 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...

  Bruce RobbinsNov 29, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography

  Andrew DeGraff's "Plotted: A Literary Atlas" is a book of maps based on great works of literature.

  Jonathan Russell ClarkOct 20, 2015

  • Art & Architecture

  • Literary Fiction

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  All Is Permitted, All Over Again: Oliver Ready’s Translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”

  Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was.

  Boris DralyukOct 18, 2015

  • Literary Fiction

• The Ground Beneath His Feet

  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

  • Literary Fiction

• Superheroes in a Time of Terror: Rushdie’s 1001 Nights

  Comic books, climate change, and caliphates in Salman Rushdie's "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights."

  Andrew LanhamOct 7, 2015

  • Literary Fiction

• Postcards from the Threshold

  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

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• Vladimir Nabokov, American Vagabond

  Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important.

  Boris DralyukAug 20, 2015

  • Literary Criticism

  • Literary Fiction

• The Past Is Useless

  Not only in interviews but in the novels themselves, Knausgaard has proven his own best critic.

  Ben ParkerAug 17, 2015

  • Literary Fiction

• Find this, Americans, and get it into your bones

  — The Dying Grass and other Dreams of William T. Vollmann

  Nick HoldstockAug 14, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• Manifold Destiny

  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

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• What Rubbish They Publish

  The Prank proves Anton Chekhov could write hilarious stories from an early age.

  Bob BlaisdellJul 20, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction