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Fiction
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
November 5, 2013
Meredith Turits
Therapy: The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Writers' Problems
October 13, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Willa Cather’s Correspondence Reveals Something New
The rage of a great American novelist
October 8, 2013
Hillary Kelly
Dave Eggers's Overwrought Paranoia
July 8, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
And the Award for Most Insufferable Author Goes to...
May 28, 2013
Katherine Mansfield
From the Stacks: “Six Years After”
March 28, 1923
May 17, 2013
Peter Green
The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece
The epic of colonial India
May 9, 2013
Maureen Corrigan
On Screen, 'Gatsby' is Beautiful—and Damned Boring
Five films later, Hollywood still doesn't get Fitzgerald's novel
February 15, 2013
Ian McEwan
When I Stop Believing in Fiction
February 8, 2013
Sam Lipsyte
How to Write About Sex
The awkward art of the smitten word
January 30, 2013
Sarah Courteau
George Saunders: Literary Champion of the Little Man
January 17, 2013
Maggie Shipstead
Disturbia—Will Self’s Experiment
December 17, 2012
Sam Carter
The Roberto Bolaño Bubble
November 27, 2012
Cara Parks
Ironing Out the Wrinkles—The Complexities of Madeleine L’Engle
November 20, 2012
Donna Rifkind
L.A. Story—A Rising Star of West Coast Lit Shines Dimly
November 16, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Green Piece—Barbara Kingsolver’s Eco Obsessions
November 14, 2012
Chloe Schama
Not Quite Stories—Alice Munro’s Almost Autobiography

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