Tag: Fiction

Stephen Milder

Petra Kelly and the Radical Green Past

The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. For many, this is proof that abandoning radicalism was the right choice, but a new novel offers valuable insights into why it should be recovered.

Johanna Winant

A Century of Serious Difficulty

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism—James Joyce's Ulysses, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—a hundred years on.

Boston Review

Announcing the 2022 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists

Congratulations to Parashar Kulkarni!

Stewart O’Nan

The Lost World of Richard Yates

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Hilary Mantel, Historian

The celebrated novelist treated the past seriously, depicting its psychological complexity and drawing out its present-day political implications.

Jennifer R. Bernstein

Edith Wharton’s Ghosts

Known mainly as a realist, the writer used the gothic form to explore the horror of being confined by gender.

Nate File, Marlon James

“Representation doesn’t just mean heroes. We need the villains as well.”

Marlon James discusses writing realistic Black characters, being inspired by African folktales, and why we don’t have to let go of the world of make-believe to tell serious stories.

Paula M.L. Moya

Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral?

Literature helps shape what we consider to be moral in the first place.

John Crowley

Simon Stålenhag’s Alternate Histories

Amazon’s Tales from the Loop has introduced a new audience to the speculative worlds of the Swedish artist, whose books depict worlds in which humanity has, in one way or another, run afoul of technology.

Annie Howard

What Good Can Dreaming Do?

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven reminds us of the radical power of collective imagination.

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