Dancing in the Air
Perhaps an essential thing Kundera's late style reveals is that the senile sublime has lurked in his prose all along.
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes
Perhaps an essential thing Kundera's late style reveals is that the senile sublime has lurked in his prose all along.
Jul 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