Tag: fiction

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Strange, Stranger, Strangest

Scott Bradfield

June 01, 2018

Recalling the dark and elegant stories of Robert Aickman.

Motherhood!

Lauren Oyler

May 01, 2018

Sheila Heti's Motherhood is indeed a political novel. But it may not be about motherhood.

The Lunatic Face of Fiction

Olivia Parkes

April 10, 2018

On its fortieth anniversary: Joy Williams's “The Changeling” cracked the carapace of literary realism.

The Ovid of Loserdom

J.W. McCormack

January 22, 2018

In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.

The Story of a Face

J.W. McCormack

January 03, 2018

We are trying to read the story of a teenage girl, but Marguerite Duras is trying to tell us something else.

Belladonna

Daša Drndić

November 01, 2017

Through the closed windows enter gigantic crabs. We’re Stalin’s crabs, they say, we’re the Red Army of Stalin’s crabs, red royal crabs.

Tom Hanks: Typewriter Fetishist

J.W. McCormack

October 18, 2017

The impregnable constellation we call “Tom Hanks" has gifted us with a collection of typewriter-fetish fiction.

The Past Is a Foreign Agent

J.W. McCormack

September 19, 2017

The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.

New People, Old Words

Niela Orr

August 14, 2017

Danzy Senna’s hilarious New People honors the canon of American works that take on multiracial identity.

Fiction without Women

Will Harrison

June 28, 2017

In the fiction of Haruki Murakami, female characters are presented as the vanishing vessels of a male future.