Narrative

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

T.J. Martinson Explores the Narrative Role of Sight on the Page and in the Real World

 
By T.J. Martinson  December 6, 2022
Narrative

How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

By Mary-Alice Daniel  November 29, 2022
Narrative

From the Abstract to the Everyday: How Stories Dominate Every Facet of Our Lives

By Peter Brooks  October 28, 2022
Narrative

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

By Rosalie Knecht  June 23, 2022
Narrative

In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

By Natalie Jenner  May 23, 2022
Narrative

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

By Aminatta Forna  May 17, 2022
Narrative

A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

By Aimee Bender  August 30, 2021
Events

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

By Earl Swift  July 21, 2021
Narrative

Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

By Elizabeth Knox  March 11, 2021
Narrative

The Fires of Digression: Gregory Brown on the Slow Burn of Writing Fiction

By Gregory Brown  March 11, 2021
Narrative

How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

By K Chess  February 4, 2021

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