Tag: Fiction

Articles tagged with fiction

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.

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Boston Review

Announcing the 2022 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists

Congratulations to Parashar Kulkarni!

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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.

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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.

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Marlon James Nate File

“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.

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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.

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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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Yiru Zhang, wearing a grey T-shirt and black shorts, sits on a stone window ledge in front of a brick wall. She is the winner of the 2021 Boston Review Aura Estrada Short Story Contest.
Boston Review

Announcing the 2021 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists

Congratulations to Yiru Zhang!

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Boston Review

‘Ancestors’ Contributors Reading

A recording of our digital reading of poetry, fiction, and essays from our annual literary anthology, with ASL interpreting.

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Boston Review

Celebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s Fiction

A recording of our discussion about the recovery of one of Wainaina’s lost stories and his continued importance to the African literary landscape.

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