Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

Why the Uncanny Valley Continues to Fascinate Us

By Alan Glynn | September 19, 2016

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

Liz Kay on Broadening the Scope of Stories By and For Women

By Liz Kay | September 19, 2016

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

On Javier Marías, Roberto Bolaño, and a Double Dose of Defamiliarization

By Michael Helm | September 16, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

From Krakow to Auschwitz, and Letting Go of Characters

By Affinity Konar | September 14, 2016

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

Ruth Scurr's Unconventional Biography Reveals the Genius of John Aubrey

By Charles Arrowsmith | September 14, 2016

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How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

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Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

On the Death of a Young Poet and the Limits of Imagination

By M. Sophia Newman | September 7, 2016

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

From Random House's First Female Literary Editor to Her Own Imprint

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

On the Impossible Allure of First Person Narcissists

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Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down

By Jonathan Russell Clark | September 6, 2016

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning

By Mario Vargas Llosa | September 6, 2016

Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

On Decolonizing Language

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 31, 2016

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

An Indispensable Figure in the Evolution of Modern Writing

By Seamus Heaney | August 30, 2016

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