Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

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Is "Show Don't Tell" a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

Namrata Poddar on the Western Preference for Visual Over Oral Storytelling

By Namrata Poddar | September 20, 2016

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

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

By Affinity Konar | September 14, 2016

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

By Charles Arrowsmith | September 14, 2016

Real-Life British Spies Did Not Like John Le Carré

By John le Carré | September 12, 2016

200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>

200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews Pride and Prejudice

Very Many Spoilers Are Contained Within

By Helen Garner | September 9, 2016

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

On the "Imperial Self" and the Rejection of Social Responsibility

By Jonathon Sturgeon | September 8, 2016

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

By Kerri Arsenault | September 7, 2016

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

By Stephanie Grant | September 7, 2016

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

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