Fiction

Browse our essays and reviews on fiction.

Review: Walkin’ the Dog

By Walter Mosley.

  • Peter McCarthy

The Lost World of Richard Yates

Why a great writer of the Age of Anxiety disappeared from print.

  • Stewart O’Nan

The Borrowers

Review: Pia Pera and Sena Jeter Naslund.

  • Michael Greenberg

Contests of Will

Review: Miranda Seymour and Laura Hendrie.

  • Donna Seaman

The Human and the Monstrous

A novelist and his reviewer debate the literary representation of Hitler.

  • Melvin Jules Bukiet
  • Ron Hansen

Behind the Beat

The pages of Neurotica.

  • James Campbell

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Review: Zwilling’s Dream

By Ross Feld.

  • James Hynes

Review: Fool

By Frederick G. Dillen.

  • Paul Gediman

Review: The Catastrophist

By Ronan Bennett.

  • Jennifer Howard

A Groove of History

On Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth.

  • Scott Saul

Review: Mann and Kafka

Doctor Faustus and The Castle.

  • Steve Dowden

Review: The Everlasting Story of Nory

By Nicholson Baker.

  • Ed Park

Visions of the American Beserk

Two master novelists tackle baseball, urban blight, and the counterculture in postwar America.

  • Paul Gediman

Democratic Detective

The novels of Paco Taibo Ignacio II reveal the raw sewage of Mexican politics — and a labyrinth of solidarity hidden beneath it.

  • Scott Sherman

Writing About Revolution

Revolutions are acts of hope. That’s why they are the terrain of novelists as much as historians.

  • Edwin Frank

Lesbian Fictions: Straight or Narrow?

Traditionally, lesbians have appeared in fiction just long enough to be saved by men, perform acts of gross depravity, or suffer at their own hands.

  • Kerry Fried

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

  • Neil Gordon

Making It New

For a second generation of Holocaust writers, the wounds are still open but the language is closed.

  • Jonathan Wilson

The Month of Rushdies

  • Eliot Weinberger

Walking the Line

Don DeLillo and the New Journalism.

  • Cecelia Tichi

Video Novels

 TV subverts even the possibility of morality, of human responsibility.

  • Cecelia Tichi

Under the Gun

The thing that’s missing from American writing today.

  • Alfred Kazin

Le Cage au Dull

The varieties of gay fictional experience.

  • Daniel Harris

The Emperor’s New Fiction

Writers of the lost voice.

  • Rosellen Brown
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