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Anti-Comprehension Pills
what may seem most revolutionary about Barthes’s essay is what it takes for granted: that there are readers at all for literary fiction
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes
Damages: Michelle Latiolais's "Widow"
Some moments unfold in paragraphs and minutes, while others span pages and years.
Mindy FarabeeMar 21, 2012
Pulsing Jewels
what fine filling there is between the covers.
Emily GreenMar 21, 2012
Portrait of the Artist in the Age of Wikipedia
One can only wonder what it would have been had Houellebecq actually believed in the novel as an art form.
Cécile AlduyMar 12, 2012
From Cocks to Corpses: Michel Houellebecq’s “The Map and the Territory”
It can be entertaining, disordered, ruminative, wider in range than Houellebecq’s previous books
Domenick AmmiratiMar 12, 2012
An Unknown Man: The Memoirs of Marquis of Bradomin
Valle-Inclán penned politically pointed plays that were to Spain as Brecht’s were to Germany.
Jeffrey TaylerFeb 19, 2012
No One Remembers You At All
Hollinghurst’s objective is actually a wry, subversive critique of memorialization.
Jaya Aninda ChatterjeeFeb 13, 2012
A Pirate’s Life for Me: Sara Levine's "Treasure Island!!!"
The story eddies into a piercing family drama, in which its undercurrents of sadness and regret can finally rise to the surface.
Alison PowellJan 10, 2012
Being Boring
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."
Cornel BoncaJan 8, 2012
Unfinished Form
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.
Lee KonstantinouJul 6, 2011