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Fiction
November 1, 2016
Magazine
Lidija Haas
The Escape Artist
Social climbing and self-discovery are entwined in Zadie Smith’s new novel.
September 27, 2016
Magazine
Jo Livingstone
Enigma Variations
Notes toward a theory of Nell Zink.
September 7, 2016
Magazine
Michelle Dean
Me Oh My!
Can Jonathan Safran Foer write fiction about anything but himself?
August 3, 2016
Malcolm Harris
China Miéville’s Surrealist World War II
In 'The Last Days of New Paris' avant-garde artists fight the Nazis.
July 20, 2016
Jo Livingstone
Dave Eggers’s Sentimental Journey
His new novel 'Heroes of the Frontier' turns a troubled mother into a questing hero.
July 5, 2016
Walton Muyumba
Yaa Gyasi’s Transatlantic Epic
The story of a family curse, 'Homegoing' wrestles with African American identity.
June 21, 2016
Magazine
Rachel Kushner
Popular Mechanics
How factory revolts inspired a new form of the novel.
June 8, 2016
Max Nelson
Radically Different Fictions of Fatherhood
New books by Max Porter and Adam Ehrlich Sachs take on the all-male family unit.
March 28, 2016
Aaron Bady
Helen Oyeyemi’s Locked Doors
Her new story collection 'What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours' is fascinatingly twisted and imperfect.
October 28, 2015
Truman Capote
“The Moth in the Flame”: An Unpublished Short Story by Truman Capote
Written for his high school literary magazine, this haunting story is now published for the first time.
October 6, 2015
Hannah Tennant-Moore
Mary Gaitskill Makes the Superficial Bearable
Her new novel “The Mare” finds hidden truths in ordinary moments
July 27, 2015
Benjamin Anastas
A Passion for the Void
Understanding Clarice Lispector’s strange and surreal fiction
May 20, 2015
M. Lynx Qualey
The Man Booker International Prize Goes Global but Lands Back Home
May 15, 2015
Jeet Heer
Jonathan Franzen's “Bad” Sex Writing Isn't His Fault
March 30, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Should Young Writers "Wait Their Turn"? This Famous Old Writer Thinks So.
October 9, 2014
Hillary Kelly
5 Steps to Getting Over Your Ignorance of the Nobel Winner for Literature
September 6, 2014
Ian McEwan
The Heartwrenching Court Cases That Inspired My New Novel
August 26, 2014
Juliet Lapidos
When Are Metafictional Games a Mask For Laziness?
The complex style of Ben Lerner
August 8, 2014
Philip Maughan
Geoff Dyer: “There Should Be an Annual Festival Devoted to Me”
April 12, 2014
Cynthia Ozick
How Kafka Actually Lived
He did not transcend his Jewishness, no matter what Updike claimed
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