Fiction

A bittersweet tale of marital communion and cleavage aboard a steamship.

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The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece

The epic of colonial India

How did a middling middle-aged novelist grow to write the English epic of colonial India? 

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On Screen, 'Gatsby' is Beautiful—and Damned Boring

Five films later, Hollywood still doesn't get Fitzgerald's novel

The book was about class anxieties, not classy parties. The movie, not so much.

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The god that fails: a novelist’s uneasy relationship with fiction.

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The Smitten Word

The awkward art of writing about sex

The only thing more common than bad sex? Bad writing about sex. A novelist describes the dangers of the smitten word.

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George Saunders creates sci-fi-flavored, futuristic dystopias in his fiction. He is also the most perceptive author writing today about the modern working world.

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Will Self's tries to abandon linear conventions in "Self" but just can't free himself from their grasp.

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The Roberto Bolaño Bubble

ALTHOUGH IT HAS been nearly a decade since Roberto Bolaño’s death, he has been publishing at an enviable clip. His latest book, Woes of the True Policeman, is not even his first this year: last spring there appeared The Secret of Evil, a collection of nineteen largely unfinished stories.

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Leonard S. Marcus’s Listening for Madeleine responds directly to Cynthia Zarin’s image-distorting New Yorker profile.

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Wilson’s devotion to voice above all other narrative elements is even less effective in Panorama City than it was in The Interloper.

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